Meet Nida Allam
Nida Allam grew up in this district, the daughter of Indian and Pakistani immigrants. She attended North Carolina public schools and then NC State University, where she led a campaign to partner with local healthcare workers to provide free healthcare to low-income community members.
In 2015, her life changed forever when her friends Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha were murdered in their Chapel Hill home in an anti-Muslim hate crime.
Deeply affected by the deaths of her friends and determined to carry on their legacy, Nida threw herself into organizing to amplify underheard voices and increase community safety through solidarity. Joining interfaith and multiracial coalitions across the state, Nida became a leading advocate for affordable housing, Medicare for All, a fair living wage, quality education, a Green New Deal, abortion rights, and labor rights in North Carolina.
Along the way, she has inspired a new movement for a more progressive, livable, and equal North Carolina and has become one of the most vocal, visible, and vibrant Muslim women in Democratic politics today.
After running an unprecedented campaign to serve on the Durham County Board of Commissioners in 2020, she became the first Muslim woman ever to hold public office in the state of North Carolina. In 2022, she ran to represent North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District — coming up just nine points short of victory in the most expensive primary in state history, dramatically overperforming despite millions in conservative outside spending. And in 2023, she made history once again after being unanimously elected as the youngest County Commission Chair in North Carolina.
As a Commissioner, Nida stands up for educators, labor, and affordable housing, leading the charge to raise the minimum wage for Durham County employees and secure property tax relief for low-income Durham residents. Even before ICE deportations escalated nationwide, she funded the first-ever Immigrant & Refugee Coordinator position at the County level. As a proud member of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), she legislates to put the county in service of working people, and not the other way around.
She continues to serve on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood Votes South Atlantic and was named to the Third Cohort of the Hunt Institute’s State Policy Fellows program. Nida served in senior leadership in the North Carolina Democratic Party, as chair of the Durham Mayor’s Council for Women, and as political director for the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign.
From a young age, Nida’s parents taught her that service to others was her highest calling. She proudly lives those values in Durham with her husband Towqir, their daughter Aaliyah, and son Abdul.
Now Nida is running for Congress to take that fight to the federal level. She’s fighting for a living wage, Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and other policies that North Carolinians urgently need.
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