Mounir Lynch
Mounir Lynch ran for election for an at-large seat of the Columbus City Schools Board of Education in Ohio. He lost in the general election on November 4, 2025.
Lynch completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Mounir Lynch was born in Columbus, Ohio. His career experience includes working in healthcare.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Columbus City Schools, Ohio, elections (2025)
General election
General election for Columbus City Schools school board (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Columbus City Schools school board on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Antoinette Miranda (Nonpartisan) | 25.0 | 45,689 |
| ✔ |  | Jermaine Kennedy (Nonpartisan)  | 21.8 | 39,788 |
| ✔ | Patrick Katzenmeyer (Nonpartisan) | 21.6 | 39,494 | |
 | Janeece Keyes (Nonpartisan) | 10.9 | 19,960 | |
 | Kimberley Mason (Nonpartisan) | 10.4 | 19,015 | |
 | Mounir Lynch (Nonpartisan) | 10.4 | 18,933 | |
| Total votes: 182,879 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Columbus City Schools school board (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the primary for Columbus City Schools school board on May 6, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Antoinette Miranda (Nonpartisan) | 21.9 | 16,955 |
| ✔ | Patrick Katzenmeyer (Nonpartisan) | 19.1 | 14,760 | |
| ✔ | | Jermaine Kennedy (Nonpartisan) | 18.4 | 14,239 |
| ✔ | | Mounir Lynch (Nonpartisan) | 7.6 | 5,881 |
| ✔ | | Janeece Keyes (Nonpartisan) | 7.2 | 5,556 |
| ✔ | | Kimberley Mason (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 5,510 |
 | Liz Caslin‐Turner (Nonpartisan) | 6.2 | 4,812 | |
 | Karrie Lumpkin (Nonpartisan) | 4.9 | 3,766 | |
| Teresa Hannah (Nonpartisan) | 4.2 | 3,228 | ||
 | Julie Trabold (Nonpartisan) | 3.4 | 2,646 | |
| Total votes: 77,353 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tracey Sigers (Nonpartisan)
- Ivory Kennedy Jr. (Nonpartisan)
- Yasmine Farah (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
Lynch received the following endorsements.
- Columbus Democratic Socialists of America
- Working Families Party
- Asian American Midwest Progressives
- EducateUs
- Everytown for Gun Safety
- Moms Demand Action
- Planned Parenthood Action Fund
- Run for Something
- Stonewall Democrats of Central Ohio
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mounir Lynch completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lynch's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Mounir is a proud product of Columbus City Schools, having graduated from Columbus Alternative High School. Mounir studied Public and Community Health Promotion and Education and Spanish at the University of Cincinnati.
Mounir is a triplet- the mother is an immigrant from Morocco and his father was a librarian, educator, and son of a coal miner from Appalachian Kentucky. He is inspired by the journey and life's work of his parents who instilled in him the value of education and advocacy from a very young age.
From 2020-24, Mounir worked at the Ohio Center for Sex Education where he worked in a majority of CCS middle and high schools educating students on topics of health, identity and relationships to help youth make empowering decision for their health and safety. He has worked across disciplines in public health education, primarily focusing on infectious disease, reproductive health, and substance misuse disorders.
Mounir serves on the Board of Directors of the Abortion fund of Ohio, and has been involved in community organizing and advocacy since he was a teenager.- Make Columbus City Schools the best place to work and learn
- Restore public trust in the Board of Education
- Prioritizing community engagement as a key tool for establishing district priorities, advancing equity, and decision making.
Board members need to be transparent and able to listen to the concerns and needs of their constituents and the staff and students they lead.
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Other survey responses
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 18, 2025
