RSVP to attend Fatima's Sacramento Launch on March 4th, 2025 at 5:30 pm. Location provided upon RSVP!
Fatima's website: www.fatimaforassembly.com
Fatima is running a corporate free campaign for the open 65th Assembly District seat, powered by the community and grassroots. Fatima Iqbal-Zubair is the current chair of California Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus, leading the largest state democratic caucus in the nation. In this role, she has had many achievements such as co-writing the state's Reparations resolution and ceasefire resolution. Fatima is also part of the CA Democratic Party's Executive Board. She has a knack for building coalitions and bringing unlikely people together to effect change and progress on key issues for marginalized communities.
In her day job, she is California EnviroVoters’ Legislative Affairs Manager- she is up here in Sacramento each week to advocate! As Legislative Affairs Manager, she has been co-chair of Blue Green Alliance for the past year working closely with labor to support high road and high quality jobs, while also passing transformative climate and environmental justice policy, such as AB 3233 (Addis). Living in a frontline community in South Los Angeles, Fatima brings with her lived experiences as a former teacher in Watts, former California Teacher's Association member, community organizer and current youth nonprofit STEAM leader- this nonprofit was founded to ensure equity in education for first generation black and brown students to have access to STEAM careers. She runs this nonprofit in her free time to maintain her connection to the needs of youth in her community. Her nonprofit also runs a free annual STEAM summer camp for young children each summer and has formed numerous collaborations with local organizations such as Watts Rising, Mudtown Farms and local community gardens.
Fatima is also a special needs mom and advocate. She is an immigrant and South Asian woman who has lived in a frontline community that has struggled with the impacts of systemic racism, environmental and socioeconomic issues for far too long. Her activism stemmed from her work as a high school Science teacher in Watts working in a school that has contaminated water and land. Since then, she has grown to be part of numerous local and statewide coalitions and is excited to use her experiences and focus on youth to create communities all across our state for the working class that are healthy, livable, and thriving.
Her 2026 campaign and future leadership in the legislature will focus on policy needs that are directly responsive to the community: these include taking advantage of the influx of federal money to rebuild the infrastructure of the district, while creating good paying jobs, solving environmental issues through a justice lens that puts good paying green jobs and community needs first, guarantee housing as a human right, with a special focus on the unhoused and renters, a public education system that is community centered and high quality, healthcare as a human right, and a criminal justice system that focuses on uplifting systems of care and crime prevention.