ABOUT
Bushra Amiwala is an award-winning activist, media icon, dynamic speaker and the first Gen Z elected official in the United States. Her leadership has extended far beyond her campaign and as a result, she’s been named Glamour magazine’s College Woman of the Year, the Women’s Champion Award sponsored by the United Nations, and was on the cover of TIME magazine. In addition to these awards, Bushra is the subject of an original PBS documentary called And She Could Be Next, the female candidate on Amazon’s RUN the Series, has just debuted in a Hulu documentary called Our America: Women Forward, and she has made hundreds of TV and radio appearances, including outlets such as Fox, CBS, NPR, ABC, and PBS.
She has extensive experience and successful leadership across information technology, non-profit organisations, primary & secondary education, and civic & social organisations. She holds her elected seat on the Skokie Board of Education, as its youngest member, is a candidate at Kellogg, Northwestern School of Management pursuing her MBA part-time and continues to work as a Solutions Consultant at Google.