Ilhan Omar (born 1982) is a Somali-American politician from Minnesota. In 2016, she was elected a Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, making her the first Somali-American legislator elected to office in the United States. She is the Director of Policy and Initiatives of the Women Organizing Women Network.
Omar is the Democratic Farmer Labor nominee for U. S. Representative in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, having won the primary on August 14, 2018.
