Mamdani rewards revered campaign adviser with top administration position

At the beginning of this year, the political world didn’t know who New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was.

However, by June, New York media had plastered his name across the headlines. And at the beginning of November, he was elected to lead the nation’s largest city. Many in his orbit credit former campaign manager Elle Bisgaard-Church, whom Mamdani just appointed as his chief of staff, for familiarizing the world with Mamdani.

Mamdani announced Bisgaard-Church’s appointment on Monday, alongside naming Dean Fuleihan, a former aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, as his first deputy mayor. Mamdani has been building his transition team and mayoral administration since beating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, in the general election last week.

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