PERSON: Qasim Rashid

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Qasim Rashid (born July 21, 1982) is a Pakistani-born American author, activist, and attorney. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Rashid ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Illinois’s 11th congressional district in 2024. Previously, Rashid was an unsuccessful candidate for the Virginia State Senate in 2019 and the Democratic nominee for Virginia’s 1st congressional district in the 2020 election.

Rashid was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in 1982. His father was an Ahmadi missionary. In 1987, he moved with his family to the United States, where they lived in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, Illinois. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Richmond School of Law. He served as executive editor of The Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business.

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