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Mounir Lynch

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Mounir Lynch
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Candidate, Columbus City Schools school board

Elections and appointments
Next election

November 4, 2025

Education

High school

Columbus Alternative High School

Personal
Birthplace
Columbus, Ohio
Religion
Muslim
Profession
Healthcare
Contact

Mounir Lynch is running for election for an at-large seat of the Columbus City Schools Board of Education in Ohio. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025. He advanced from the primary on May 6, 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

The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

General election for Columbus City Schools school board (3 seats)

The following candidates are running in the general election for Columbus City Schools school board on November 4, 2025.

Candidate
Patrick Katzenmeyer (Nonpartisan)
Image of Jermaine Kennedy
Jermaine Kennedy (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
Janeece Keyes‐Shanklin (Nonpartisan)
Image of Mounir Lynch
Mounir Lynch (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
Image of Kimberley Mason
Kimberley Mason (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
Image of Antoinette Miranda
Antoinette Miranda (Nonpartisan)

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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
Image of Antoinette Miranda
Antoinette Miranda (Nonpartisan)
 
21.9
 
16,955
Patrick Katzenmeyer (Nonpartisan)
 
19.1
 
14,760
Image of Jermaine Kennedy
Jermaine Kennedy (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
18.4
 
14,239
Image of Mounir Lynch
Mounir Lynch (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
7.6
 
5,881
Janeece Keyes‐Shanklin (Nonpartisan)
 
7.2
 
5,556
Image of Kimberley Mason
Kimberley Mason (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
7.1
 
5,510
Image of Liz Caslin‐Turner
Liz Caslin‐Turner (Nonpartisan)
 
6.2
 
4,812
Image of Karrie Lumpkin
Karrie Lumpkin (Nonpartisan)
 
4.9
 
3,766
Teresa Hannah (Nonpartisan)
 
4.2
 
3,228
Image of Julie Trabold
Julie Trabold (Nonpartisan)
 
3.4
 
2,646

Total votes: 77,353
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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

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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 public health educator, infectious disease prevention professional, and long-time advocate for health and education equity.

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.
Education justice, public health, reproductive rights, housing, racial justice, sexual and gender equity.
A board member should be a staunch advocate for the entire CCS community. This means that in a time where we are facing hostilities from state and federal governments, board members should be on the front lines of the fight against these attacks on the CCS community.
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.
I would like to be viewed as someone who was a champion for the school district I grew up in, and helped navigate CCS through one of the most difficult political eras in American history.
My constituents are the students, staff, families and communities of the Columbus City School district.
At CAHS, we participated in socratic seminars and coursework that emphasized the importance of multidisciplinary skills. For example, students at CAHS may be instructed to do traditional exams, essays, and art projects in one course to support their learning.
School districts across the country faced immense challenges throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However from a district perspective, delays to adequate learning and social development are most pertinent. In the future, I would ensure that families are adequately equipped with the tools to maintain connection between families, their students, and their educators. This includes reliable internet connectivity, open communication on hardship resources and public health resources, and plentiful resourcing for school support staff upon the return to school.
In order to recruit staff, faculty and administration, we must ensure that we re-establish the board of education as a collaborator between organizations and unions that represent teachers and support staff, rather than an enemy of them. With this comes increased resources, financially and otherwise, for school staff. Unions make employees stronger, and serve as a voice to advocate for their needs and priorities. Furthermore, we must work from the top down to provide the safest, most state of the art school facilities that staff are excited to show up to work in on a daily basis. Unsafe, outdated environments are not conducive to learning or working comfortably and safely.

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Other survey responses

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 18, 2025