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Ayat Amin
Ayat Amin ran for election to the Cleveland City Council to represent Ward 3 in Ohio. She lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Amin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ayat Amin was born in El Paso, Texas. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California-San Diego in 2016 and a graduate degree from M.I.T. in 2020. Her professional experience includes working for The Opportunity Exchange, which supports affordable housing in Detroit, invests in Appalachia, and helps minority businesses in Atlanta and St. Louis. Amin has conducted policy research for Clevelanders for Public Transit, volunteered as an adult literacy tutor for Refugee Response, worked to address the digital divide experienced by businesses in Mt. Pleasant and Union Miles for the Digital Land Initiative, and spoken at Cleveland’s anti-war protest in January 2020 and at Cleveland’s 2020 International Women’s Day March. She is a lifetime member of Black Environmental Leaders.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in Cleveland, Ohio (2021)
General election
General election for Cleveland City Council Ward 3
Incumbent Kerry McCormack defeated Ayat Amin in the general election for Cleveland City Council Ward 3 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kerry McCormack (Nonpartisan) | 74.7 | 3,003 |
Ayat Amin (Nonpartisan)  | 25.3 | 1,017 | ||
| Total votes: 4,020 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Cleveland City Council Ward 3
Incumbent Kerry McCormack and Ayat Amin defeated Mike Rogalski in the primary for Cleveland City Council Ward 3 on September 14, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kerry McCormack (Nonpartisan) | 73.6 | 2,215 |
| ✔ | Ayat Amin (Nonpartisan) | 20.4 | 615 | |
| Mike Rogalski (Nonpartisan) | 6.0 | 181 | ||
| Total votes: 3,011 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ayat Amin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Amin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Despite studying to be an environmental engineer, she has spent the past few years in Cleveland working in economic development across the US. Her work included helping Detroit manage their affordable housing loan fund, helping bring >$100M to rural Appalachia and supporting minority businesses in St. Louis and Atlanta. Her experience in development is focused on community development that is affordable and inclusive.
Outside of work, Ayat is part of various organizations including Lifetime Member of Black Environmental Leaders, Policy Team Member for Clevelander's for Public Transit and former adult literacy tutor for Refugee Response.
Two years ago, she attended a climate protest holding a sign that said "Change the politics, not the climate." When environmental issues were still not given a priority in this year's election, she decided to take her own advice and run for office.- The Cleveland Green Deal
- Remove or Rethink the Tax Abatement
- Holistic Approach to Public Safety
Here are some further needs for downtown:
- apartments at an affordable rent
- apartments/condos that are available for sale, not just for rent
- more grocery store options, especially ones that are affordable like an Aldi
- more greenspace, especially near Playhouse square. This includes a better diversity of greenspaces such as dog parks, splashpads, picnic tables, playgrounds and more.
First, I would allocate half the money in a participatory budgeting process. This means residents can submit ideas and vote on how $500,000 should be spent. This would give residents direct say of how this funding is used.
I am part of a group called Participatory Budgeting Cleveland who has been advocating to set up a process where residents can submit ideas and vote on them with the over $500M of ARPA funding.
I am running for office as an environmentalist. In college I studied to be an environmental engineer and it was during that time I learned we had the technology to address climate change. What we were missing was the politics. As this year began, I saw how we now had less than a decade to get our emissions down to 0 as a planet, but no politician in Cleveland was putting forth solutions that would actually address the scale of the challenge.
So I decided to run on a platform I am calling the Cleveland Green Deal, a version of the Green New Deal that is Cleveland specific and achievable in the next 4 years by city council. It has 9 policies focused on 4 values: affordability as a human right, fighting climate change, ending environmental racism, and investing in public spaces.
In general, I love reading and visit my local library branch, Carnegie West, about once a week.
If you look at cities in the USA who are successfully switching to 100% renewable energy, they have a public utility company. The fact that Cleveland already has CPP is a HUGE asset for fighting climate change. Currently, we are not utilizing this asset well and it is city council's and the mayor's job to do that.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 25, 2021
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