Meet ashira mohammed

Meet Ashira Mohammed; political candidate for Town of Pembroke Park , she is an attorney, born and raised in Brooklyn New York. She graduated from

Kingsborough Community College with an Associates in Applied Science in accounting and data

processing. She attended Florida Atlantic University where she received her bachelor’s degree

in International Business before attending St. Thomas University where she received her Juris

Doctorate.

She has a very diverse work history starting out of high school at Verizon as a central office

technician. She followed in her families footsteps as both her mother and brother were 25+

year shop stewards; so naturally she became heavily involved with her local union

CWA 1109, which actually contributed to her education as she was the recipient of the Joseph

Anthony Beirnes scholarship. At an early age she learned the importance of fighting for the

rights of others while balancing the needs of both employees and employers. She also learned

the value of small businesses and business development. She worked for two years with

National Minority Supplier Development Council an organization that helps match minority

businesses with Fortune 500 companies.

During this time she decided to further her education and moved to Florida to complete her

bachelor’s degree at Florida Atlantic University. While completing her studies she traveled to

Costa Rica with her school and visited the US consulate there and became interested in the

important role that governments play on the developments of a community. She decided to run

for office in her home town of Pembroke Park where she became the first minority and

youngest female in the state to hold public office. She elevated through the ranks of

commissioner , vice mayor and mayor and served the community for 17 years bridging the gap

between government and the people.

She worked with organizations like sister cities and various foreign chamber of commerce’s to

bring businesses into the small town to make sure the town lived up to its motto of being the

small town that means big business. She’s worked on changing zoning regulations to allow for

mixed use and commercial development and worked with various agencies to attract

development in her city. She’s forward thinking and changed regulation to allow for the use of

medical marijuana dispensary’ within her town when so many cities were shying away from it.

Progressively, working with various staffers in the town to create and market shovel ready

right. She collaborated with other elected officials on the numerous committee she sat on with

the National league of cities and the Florida League of Cities and the Florida League of Mayors

where she received numerous awards for her work with these agencies.