{"id":136083,"date":"2026-02-17T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:17:06","slug":"mamdani-taps-long-time-ally-city-council-veteran-faiza-ali-as-immigrant-affairs-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136083\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani taps long-time ally, City Council veteran Faiza Ali as Immigrant Affairs Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani will appoint Faiza Ali as commissioner of the Mayor\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) on Tuesday, amNewYork has learned \u2014 bringing into his administration a long-time ally and a City Council veteran to lead the office at a critical moment for immigrant New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>Ali, the daughter of Pakistani immigrants and raised in Brooklyn, most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/manhattan\/mamdani-transition-mayor-elect-names-402-advisors-across-17-committees-ahead-of-january-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">served on Mamdani\u2019s transition committee on government operations<\/a>. At the Council, she rose from community liaison in 2014 to director of the Community Engagement Division, before serving as first deputy chief of staff to former Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.\u00a0She\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/menin-fires-more-dozen-council-staffers\/410604\/#:~:text=Lobel%20did%20not%20say%20whether,a%20former%20speaker%27s%20staffer%20said.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reportedly left that role voluntarily<\/a> the day before the first stated meeting of the year, as Council Speaker Julie Menin took over and implemented staffing changes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdani-immigrant-affairs-commissioner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMamdani taps long-time ally, City Council veteran Faiza Ali as Immigrant Affairs Commissioner &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mayor Zohran Mamdani will appoint Faiza Ali as commissioner of the Mayor\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[57859,1445,36610,9,24,12,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-136083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-faiza-ali","9":"tag-mamdani","10":"tag-mayor-mamdani","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}