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Mira Tanna
Mira Tanna is running for election to the Orlando City Council to represent District 3 in Florida. She declared candidacy for the general election scheduled on November 4, 2025.
Tanna completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in Orlando, Florida (2025)
General election
The general election will occur on November 4, 2025.
General election for Orlando City Council District 3
Samuel Chambers, Roger Chapin, Chris Durant, Kimberly Kiss, and Mira Tanna are running in the general election for Orlando City Council District 3 on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
 | Samuel Chambers (Nonpartisan) | |
| Roger Chapin (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Chris Durant (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Kimberly Kiss (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Mira Tanna (Nonpartisan)  | |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aaron Lewis (Nonpartisan)
- Jason Albu (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mira Tanna completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tanna's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Prior to working with the City of Orlando, Mira served as an assistant manager with the Orange County Library System, where she developed the Sunshine State Author Series and organized the inaugural African American Read In. Mira also spent more than a decade in civil rights work, including as Fair Lending Manager at Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, where she successfully challenged discriminatory practices and improved housing accessibility. She founded the St. Louis Equal Housing & Community Reinvestment Alliance, which has been responsible for reinvesting over $3B in low-income and minority communities.
Mira is the clerk of Quakers of Orlando, located in the Park Lake / Highland neighborhood. The daughter of immigrants from India and the Netherlands, she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. Mira lives in District 3 with her husband, UCF professor and poet Obi Nwakanma, and their two children, who attended OCPS public schools.- BUILD TRUST IN GOVERNMENT:
Orlando deserves elected leaders who have the highest level of integrity. I promise to be a city commissioner who is responsive, transparent and fiscally responsible.
People should feel connected to their local government. I will work to engage residents most impacted by local government decisions, including those voices who are unlikely to be heard. - INVEST IN TRANSIT: We need to make Orlando more walkable, bikeable and transit-friendly by operating SunRail on weekends and expanding up the 441 corridor, while increasing the frequency, dependability and appeal of Lynx. Strengthening our city’s transit system will alleviate traffic congestion, make our community safer, create thriving Main Streets and strengthen our economy while preserving our environment for future generations.
- IMPROVE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY: We have an affordable housing crisis in Orlando. The increase in homelessness is directly related to the increasing cost of housing. Making sure that housing is safe, available, and affordable needs to be a top priority for our future. We can improve housing affordability through land use decisions that review parking requirements and minimum lot sizes and that encourage transit-oriented development. I am interested in finding new ways to increase housing development, such as through land recycling and creative financing for accessory dwelling units.
And for those who are not interested in public transit, investing in alternative transportation options means less traffic congestion for you, and more economic development for our region.
EXPERIENCE - prospective city commissioners should understand city government well and should be able to demonstrate that they have been effective leaders;
- Dr. Anna V. Eskamani, State Representative, District 42
- Angie Gardner, Mayor of the Town of Eatonville
- Matthew Grocholske, Orange County Soil & Water Supervisor
- Dr. Jim Moyer, Orange County Soil & Water Supervisor
- Scott Randolph, Orange County Tax Collector
- Carlos Guillermo Smith, State Senator, District 17
- Melissa Vickers, Public Defender, Ninth Judicial Circuit
- Monique Worrell, State Attorney, Ninth Judicial Circuit
ORGANIZATIONS:
- Democratic Municipal Officials
- Candidates for Common Good
- Ruth's List Florida
- Her Bold Move
- Progressives Democrats for America - Florida
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
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