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Nina Ahmad, women’s advocate and entrepreneur seeks open council seat

BY: - December 3, 2022

A native of Bangladesh, Ahmad came to the U.S. alone when she was 21 and improved her English by watching U.S. television shows and waiting tables at a diner. Later she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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There’s still no winner for state treasurer? What gives? | Monday Morning Coffee

BY: - November 9, 2020

Three offices that tend to be afterthoughts are a very big deal right now.

Get to know Pa.’s Auditor General candidates: Nina Ahmad

BY: - October 27, 2020

In an effort to help voters make an informed decision this Nov., the Capital-Star will be doing Q&A’s with all four candidates for the Office of the Auditor General, a statewide position currently held by Eugene DePasquale. 

‘American women go to work’: Democratic women roast Trump’s ‘suburban housewife’ scare tweet

BY: - August 13, 2020

A day after President Donald Trump darkly tweeted warnings of a suburban “invasion,” and bragged that only he could protect “the suburban housewife” from its impact, four Democratic women offered a forceful rebuttal, describing him as a relic of an America that, if it existed in the first place, was the relic of an “Ozzie […]

Auditor General Primary: Ahmad declares victory in tight race for Democratic nod

BY: - June 12, 2020

Lamb conceded the race to Ahmad on Thursday, June 11. Nine days after Pennsylvania’s June 2 primary. 

Dem auditor general hopeful Nina Ahmad loaned more than $290K to her campaign

BY: - May 27, 2020

All of the Democratic candidates, except for Ahmad and Michael Lamb, have seen a decrease in expenditures since March 10 as travel fees disappear amid COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. 

Zoom hackers target auditor general candidates with racial, misogynistic slurs and threats

BY: - April 8, 2020

Democratic hopeful and Bangladesh-native Nina Ahmad, of Philadelphia, said she was the subject of two such attacks, one of which involved two more female candidates for the seat.