Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist know all about her in this article as like her Family, Net Worth, Parents, Husband, Children, Age and Nationality.
| Bio | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kshama Sawant |
| Birthdate | 17 October 1973 |
| Age (as of 2021) | 48 years |
| Place of Birth | Pune |
| Nationality | Indian-American |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Spouse/Partner | Calvin Priest (m. 2016), Vivek Sawant (m. ?–2014) |
| Children | Not Known |
| Parents | Vasundhara Ramanujam, H. T. Ramanujam |
| Education | University of Mumbai |
| Professional Career | Member of the Seattle City Council |
| Net Worth | $1 Million – $2 Million |
Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist who has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of Socialist Alternative, the first and only member of the party to date to be elected to public office.She was the first socialist to win a citywide election in Seattle since Anna Louise Strong was elected to the school board in 1916.
Kshama Sawant Family and Parents
Kshama Sawant was Born to H. T. and Vasundhara Ramanujam into a middle-class Tamil Brahmin family in the city of Pune, India. Sawant was raised mostly in Mumbai.Her mother is a retired principal and her father, a civil engineer, was killed by a drunk driver when she was 13 years old.She describes her family as “full of doctors and engineers and mathematicians” but says that “I wasn’t exposed to any particular ideology growing up.”
Sawant graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Mumbai in 1994.After moving to the United States with her husband Vivek Sawant, a Microsoft software engineer,she decided to turn her attention to economics following a year and a half stint as a programmer.She received her PhD in economics from North Carolina State University in 2003.Her dissertation was titled Elderly Labor Supply in a Rural, Less Developed Economy.After moving to Seattle, she taught at Seattle University and University of Washington Tacoma and was an adjunct professor at Seattle Central College.She was also a visiting assistant professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Kshama Sawant First Husband
Kshama Sawant Married with Husband Vivek Sawant.She indicated that she and her husband Vivek Sawant, had been separated for nearly six years.
Kshama Sawant and Husband Calvin Priest
In 2014, Sawant and Calvin Priest, a Seattle Socialist Alternative organizer, purchased a home together in the Leschi neighborhood.In 2016, Sawant took time off to be out of the country for their wedding.
Kshama Sawant Net Worth
Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist has an estimated Net Worth around $1 Million – $2 Million in 2021.
| Worth | |
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| Name | Kshama Sawant |
| Net Worth ( 2021 ) | $1 Million – $2 Million |
| Income Source | Indian-American politician and economist |
| Income / Salary | Under Review |
| Last Update | 2021 |
Professional Career
After her unsuccessful run for the House, Sawant entered the race for Seattle City Council with a campaign organized by the Socialist Alternative.She won 35% of the vote in the August primary election, and advanced into the general election for the at-large council position 2 against incumbent Richard Conlin, making her the first socialist to advance to a general election in Seattle since 1991.On November 15, 2013, Conlin conceded to Sawant when returns showed him down by 1,640 votes or approximately 1% of the vote.
Sawant’s victory made her the first socialist to win a citywide election in Seattle since Anna Louise Strong was elected to the School Board in 1916 and the first socialist on the City Council since A. W. Piper, elected in 1877.She was sworn into office on January 6, 2014.Sawant declared a victory in May 2014 after Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced an increase in the minimum wage to $15, which was the cornerstone of her campaign for City Council, but she is not pleased that large corporations will be allowed a few years to phase in the wage hike.
In 2019, Sawant ran against Egan Orion, a small business advocate and organizer of the city’s annual LGBT pride festival.The 2019 Seattle City Council election gained national attention after Amazon spent an unprecedented $1.5 million on the campaign.The company, which is the largest private employer in the city,contributed the funds to a political action committee operated by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce which backs candidates the chamber considers to be more “business-friendly”.The PAC supported Sawant’s opponent in the race.
Amazon became increasingly involved in city council politics after the passage of the Seattle head tax in 2018, which would have cost the company $11 million annually in order to fund public housing and homeless services.Shortly after enacting the tax, the city council voted 7–2 to repeal it, with Sawant being one of the two dissenters.On November 5, 2019, Sawant was elected to a third term on the Seattle City Council.
In August 2020, petitioner Ernie Lou submitted a petition to the King County Elections Office to recall Sawant, which was allowed to proceed in a decision by the Washington Supreme Court on April 1, 2021.Sawant responded by denying the charges in the petition and claiming that the recall effort is backed by right-wing billionaires.The recall campaign was criticised by journalist Liza Featherstone, who characterised it as being controlled by “tech corporations, real estate interests, and business lobbyists”.In September 2021, the King County Elections Office set the recall election date for December 7.
Is Kshama Sawant a US citizen?
Kshama became a United States citizen in 2010.
