Joe appoints new Muslim outreach advisor: Farooq Mitha

Scoop from The Muslim Observer:

Vice President Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign has appointed Farooq Mitha as senior advisor on Muslim American engagement. Farooq has been a long-standing supporter of the campaign, helping in many areas including Muslim engagement and in this role he will expand these efforts by reaching out to Muslim communities across the country, engaging them on issues that are important to our communities and helping organize Muslims to support Biden’s campaign. Farooq has deep ties to our communities nationally and has a long track record of working with our communities, supporting political campaigns and serving in government under the Obama administration. Raised in Florida, he is an attorney and a former Fulbright Fellow in the middle east who has been an avid community advocate.While Farooq is engaged with team Biden in his individual capacity, he has a long history of lifting the Muslim community’s civic engagement voice as a co-founder of Emgage, a leading civic engagement organization. He was also a co-founder of the Florida Muslim Chamber of Commerce. The Biden campaign gave the Muslim Observer an exclusive opportunity to be the first to speak to Farooq about his role and Vice President Biden’s engagement of Muslim Americans before Michigan’s March 10th primary.