Rashida Tlaib

Rashida Tlaib

Rashida Harbi Tlaib ( tə-LEEB; born July 24, 1976) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 12th congressional district. She is the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. Tlaib was born to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit in 1976. She graduated from Southwestern High School in Detroit in 1994, from Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1998, and from Thomas M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rashida Tlaib has received more than 5,368,530 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Rashida Tlaib is the 17,022nd most popular politician (down from 15,231st in 2019), the 14,354th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,163rd in 2019) and the 1,066th most popular American Politician.

Rashida Tlaib is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she is known for being one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, alongside Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Tlaib is also a member of "The Squad," a group of progressive congresswomen of color. She is noted for her advocacy for progressive policies and her vocal criticism of former President Donald Trump's administration.