Suraj Patel is a 38 year-old attorney and Adjunct Professor of Business Ethics at NYU who worked for President Obama. He is a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 12th Congressional District in Manhattan in a generational race between two incumbents who have been in office since 1992. He’s running because New York needs a new generation of leaders with fresh ideas, new arguments and the energy to get things done and finally play offense. Suraj is a proud first generation South Asian American.
