Anna Kaplan
Anna Kaplan (née Anna Monahemi) is an American politician from Great Neck, New York.
Kaplan, an Iranian-American, was born in Tabriz, Iran.[1] She fled Iran as a child refugee as a result of the Iranian Revolution.[2][3][4]
Kaplan is the first Iranian-American elected to municipal office in New York State.[5][6][7]
Childhood and education
Kaplan was born in Tabriz, and reared in Tehran, Iran where her father was a carpet dealer.[8][9] The family shared a 3-family house with the family of her uncle.[8] Kaplan fled Iran at age 13 as an unaccompanied child refugee,[9] 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.[1] After her family reunited in the United States, they moved to Queens, New York, and then to Great Neck, New York.[10]
Kaplan attended the Stern College at Yeshiva University and received her J.D. from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York.[7][10]
Political career
Kaplan has been a member of the North Hempstead Town Board since 2011.[5] She previously served as a trustee of the Great Neck Public Library and was a member of the North Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals.[2]
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.[11] 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.[11]
References
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