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Talk of the town councilwoman anna kaplan
Anna Kaplan (née Anna Monahemi) is an American politician from Great Neck, New York.
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- Talk of the town councilwoman anna kaplan
- Anna kaplan ovip
- Childhood and education
- Political career
- Personal life
- References
Kaplan, an Iranian-American, was born in Tabriz, Iran. She fled Iran as a child refugee as a result of the Iranian Revolution.
Kaplan is the first Iranian-American elected to municipal office in New York State.
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Childhood and education
Kaplan was born in Tabriz, and reared in Tehran, Iran, where her father was a carpet dealer. The family shared a 3-family house with the family of her uncle. Kaplan fled Iran at age 13 as an unaccompanied child refugee, arriving first in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, then going to live with a foster family in Chicago until her parents were able to escape from Iran. After her family reunited in the United States, they moved to Queens, New York, and then to Great Neck, New York.
Kaplan attended the Stern College at Yeshiva University, and received her J.D. from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York.
Political career
Kaplan has been a member of the North Hempstead Town Board since 2011. She previously served as a trustee of the Great Neck Public Library and was a member of the North Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals.
On 11 January 2016, she announced that she would run for the seat in the United States Representative for New York's 3rd congressional district being vacated by retiring congressman Steve Israel. If elected, she will be the first Iranian American to serve in Congress.
Personal life
Kaplan and her husband live in Great Neck, where they've raised two daughters.