Munira Yasin Abdullahi is an American politician who is the representative for

Ohio House The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met i ...

District 9. She won the primary on August 2, 2022, and ran unopposed in the November 2022 general election. She and Rep. Ismail Mohammed are the first two

Somali American Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland. They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the lat ...

representatives in Ohio. She is also the first Muslim woman to serve in the state house. Abdullahi's family left Somalia when she was three years old. They moved to an apartment in the Northside neighborhood of

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

. She has

type 1 diabetes Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that originates when cells that make insulin (beta cells) are destroyed by the immune system. Insulin is a hormone required for the cells to use blood sugar for ...

. Abdullahi graduated from

Columbus Alternative High School Columbus Alternative High School is a public high school in the Columbus City Schools district located in the area known as North Linden, in Columbus, Ohio. The school is a magnet school for college-bound students in Columbus, with both AP and I ...

and completed a bachelor's degree in political science at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

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* Living people American politicians of Somalian descent 21st-century African-American politicians 21st-century American politicians Politicians from Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University alumni Ohio Democrats African-American Muslims People with type 1 diabetes 1995 births Muslims from Ohio {{Ohio-OHRepresentative-stub