Daily News | Akbar Hossain’s American Dream is inspiring his work on Josh Shapiro’s transition team
Nervousness and sadness they felt about leaving everything they had ever known to go into the unknown. Pressure they felt to make the sacrifice worth it. And excitement and hopefulness they felt about there being a light at the end of the tunnel; opportunities for a better, more successful life.
“You had this random Muslim family who had traveled from Saudi Arabia to JFK, with the last name Hossain, living out of a motel room in Jersey,” said Hossain. “I was 10, but from what I remember, it wasn’t the best time of my parents’ life and they were frustrated at how we were being treated.” “That was one of my first understandings of what America was really about,” Hossain said. “It’s about this idea that when someone is in need, we step up and we get to work. That was my first foray into community and understanding how we help people.”
As Hossain’s mother tried to decide whether she would continue to raise her children alone in a country where she had no family, members of the local mosque — which the Hossain family had never visited — reached out and offered to help pay for the family’s plane tickets if they wanted to go back to Bangladesh, or help pay for their rent if they decided to stay.
From getting his degree at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school, to becoming a Truman Scholar, to now holding the position he has on Shapiro’s transition team, Hossain’s successes are plenty.
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