In this episode of “One Nation Under God,” Susie Pinto sits down with Rebecca Supriya Shah, special advisor to the president at the University of Dallas and principal investigator of the Religion and Economic Empowerment Project, to unpack the historic election of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor.
Together, they explore Mamdani’s complex identity — Ugandan-born, Indian diaspora, Twelver Shia Muslim, child of a Hindu mother and a Marxist-leaning academic father — and what his win means for New York, American Muslims, India and global politics.