Toufique Harun

Toufique is one of the founding organizers of Muslims For Progress, a grassroots civic engagement group focused on strengthening the Muslim voice in the issues affecting all of us. Since 2016, MFP has been informing, educating, and mobilizing Muslims in the NYC area to vote regularly in local elections and advocate for our issues. Through extensive research, community input, and candidate engagement, they produce candidate guides and organize GOTV efforts to increase Muslim voter turnout in key local elections, like NYC primaries and swing districts in Long Island.

Toufique focuses on coalition building within and outside the Muslim community, believing that if we want to go far, we have to go together. He helped pass NY State resolutions against Islamophobia after the mosque shootings in New Zealand. He also served on the Nassau County Police Diversity Committee in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

By day, he runs an AI healthtech company that improves access to healthcare for everyone. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball with his two daughters and hiking with his wife. He has a BSE and MSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.