Mana Abdi

Mana Hared Abdi is a Somali-American politician who is a member of the Maine House of Representatives representing District 95 in Lewiston after her Republican opponent, Fred Sanborn-Sanders, dropped out of the race.

Born in Kenya, Abdi is the youngest of eight siblings in an ethnically Somali family. She arrived as a refugee in the U.S. at age 11, originally settling in Kansas. In 2009, Abdi moved to Lewiston at the age of 13.

Abdi graduated from Lewiston High School in 2014 before earning a bachelor's degree in political science and international and global studies from the University of Maine at Farmington in 2018. She has been working at the Office of Intercultural Education at Bates College.