According to her biography on the official state Senate webpage (http://www.senate.mo.gov/13info/Members/D05/bio.htm):
Jamilah Nasheed was born on October 17, 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Nasheed is a Democrat.
Nasheed was elected to the House of Representatives in 2005; she was sworn in for the first time in 2006 and served until 2012.
Nasheed was elected to the Senate after winning her primary in August 2012.
But there's much more...
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| Growing up in south St. Louis City, being one of a dozen female members of a teenage gang and ending up taking trips to the juvenile detention center, Sen. Jamilah Nasheed’s unconventional past did not stop when she reached adulthood. After being “pushed-out” of the St. Louis public school system during her high school years, Jamilah started to change, she said, transitioning from being a “disturbed a kid to being an aware adult.” Jamilah began attending a mosque on Grand Boulevard during what would have been her high school years, and ended up studying the religion for two years before eventually converting. http://themissouritimes.com/3321/from-the-projects-to-the-capitol-part-two/ |
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| Eastern Missouri ACLU hosts first Muslim Day at Capitol Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis City, spoke at a press conference for Muslim Day. She greeted the crowd in Arabic and went on to encourage them all to be active as Muslims in state government. "[Islam] is about peace and harmony," Nasheed said. http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a/136117/eastern-missouri-aclu-hosts-first-muslim-day-at-capitol/ |
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| Sen. Jamilah Nasheed's chief of staff Eric Vickers has pictures of Malcolm X at his desk in Nasheed's office. http://themissouritimes.com/8065/staff-profile-activist-turns-politics/ |
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Jamilah Nasheed, Democrat muslim high school dropout radical