ABOUT

A former Navy officer and Obama Administration Official, Ammar has had his fair share of battles. Now he's ready to battle for healthcare, reproductive freedom, and constitutional rights for the people of California's forty-eighth district. 

A LEADER FOR CALIFORNIA

Born and raised in San Diego, Ammar is the first Latino-Arab American to run for Congress. As the son of a single mother, at the age of sixteen, he took it upon himself to get a job as a janitor and groundskeeper at his local church. This hard work ethic, instilled in him at a young age, would lead him to work as a community organizer while in college. Later, securing a regional director role in Southern California for Obama's re-election campaign.

After his work in D.C. he returned to San Diego where he continued his role in the community as a United States Naval Officer serving at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, Coronado and a Professor of Government at Georgetown University, helping educate the next generation. As a Latino-Arab American with a Palestinian father, he wondered whether he would find a place in America as a brown-skinned boy with a funny name.

However, with the election of Obama, he knew he now had a voice to serve the people in his district, leading him to run for Congress. In Congress, Ammar will fight to lower costs and make life more affordable, expand universal healthcare, protect reproductive freedom, support veterans, invest in infrastructure and clean energy, and take on corruption in Washington.