Mysonne Joins Zohran Mamdani As A Legal Justice Adviser

Mysonne Linen is formally becoming a member of Zohran Mamdani’s transition crew as an adviser on the felony justice system. Hip-hop followers could know him as a rapper from The Bronx who a jury convicted of armed theft in 1999. He obtained a 14-year sentence in jail and received out on July 5, 2006, in response to The New York Publish. After getting out from behind bars, Mysonne co-founded the group Till Freedom, which works to fight racial injustice.

“We’re proud that Till Freedom leaders have been chosen to serve on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition crew on committees for public security and felony justice respectively,” the group mentioned in a current assertion. “This can be a testomony to our a long time of labor advocating on behalf of Black and Brown communities and our experience in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and felony justice reform. We’re constructing one thing completely different.”

Zohran Mamdani will formally turn into the Mayor of New York Metropolis on January 1, 2026, following his victory within the 2025 election over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. He ran on a platform targeted on affordability, supporting fare-free metropolis buses, common public little one care, city-owned grocery shops, a hire freeze on rent-stabilized items, and extra. Along with Mysonne Linen, Mamdani’s transition crew options Former Federal Commerce Fee Chair Lina Khan in addition to Grace Bonilla, Melanie Hartzog, Maria Torres-Springer, and extra.

Within the wake of his victory, Mamdani met with President Donald Trump on the White Home, reiterating that he nonetheless believes he’s a “fascist” and a “despot,” regardless of having a productive dialog. Reflecting on the assembly throughout an look on Meet the Press afterward, Mamdani added, as caught by NBC Information: “That’s one thing I’ve mentioned prior to now and I say at the moment. And I believe what I appreciated in regards to the dialog that I had with the president was that we weren’t shy in regards to the locations of disagreement, in regards to the politics that has introduced us to this second, and we additionally wished to concentrate on what it may appear to be to ship on a shared evaluation of an affordability disaster for New Yorkers.”