With her short fringe, choppy bob and vintage closet, Rama Duwaji looks every bit the Instagram cool girl. And that she is – but as the wife of Zohran Mamdani, she is also the newly anointed first lady of the Big Apple.
Mamdani’s successful bid to become Mayor of New York was fuelled by a snappy social media campaign which earned him legions of followers and wooed a record number of voters to the polls. He is the city’s youngest mayor in a century, and the first Muslim to hold the job. Meanwhile, 28-year-old Duwaji is the first Gen-Z first lady – a far cry from Mamdani’s opponent Andrew Cuomo’s wife Kerry Kennedy, the 66-year-old daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
