Seema Ahmad started her political career as a field organizer for the 2008 Obama campaign. She is also a lawyer, policy analyst, and social and grassroots activist. She is a candidate for the race in the 7th House District of Wayne County Michigan in 2026. Seema has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University. She also has a Bar & LLM degree with specialism in Corporate Law and Practice from City Law School, City St. George's University of London, joining the alma mater of Gandi, Nehru, Jinnah, Thatcher & Blair. Among her achievements, Seema did groundbreaking policy work for the US Department of Justice (USDOJ) on measuring & preventing consumer loss due to price fixing by oligopolies. Her findings were subsequently adopted by Congress to fund hiring over a hundred personnel by the Antitrust Criminal Conspiracy Division of the USDOJ.
Seema has profuse campaign experience working on several election cycles including two presidential campaigns, one gubernatorial and one national issue-based campaign. In 2008, she campaigned in Detroit and Hamtramck across 30 precincts, registering voters, and making thousands of voter contacts during Obama's campaign. In 2009, she joined the Alliance for Immigration Reform as the Oakland County district director. From 2010 to 2012, she was the founder & Vice Chair of the Michigan Muslim Democratic Caucus within the Democratic Party from 2010-2012. In 2012, she was selected by the Michigan Democratic Party as a delegate to attend the Democratic National Convention. In 2020, she worked on Biden's presidential campaign & the Georgia Senate Runoffs through Community Change Action in 2020. In 2018, Seema built a campaign software tool for voters to connect easily with lawmakers to influence policies. Her tool now connects voters with candidates for office to facilitate voting.
Before her political engagement in Metro Detroit, she worked for the City of Detroit for half a decade in the Departments of Planning and Development and Human Rights as a Senior Analyst and in the Department of Health as a Senior Statistician. Before that, she worked as a turnaround consultant for local & federal government through Public Strategies Group.
Seema is the author of Bridge Over Troubled Waters, a memoir of her father's work to create North South University (NSU). She was a trustee at NSU from 2022 to 2024. In 2000, Seema founded the non-profit Center for Education & Development to assist in building Presidency University in Bangladesh where she was a board member. Then she partnered with World Computer Exchange as their country representative to send hundreds of computers to dozens of non-profit organizations in 2002.
Seema has eight years of experience working as a VEX Robotics coach for teams Riptide and JAAGO earning many top awards including Excellence Awards, Judge's Awards, and Tournament & Regional Champion Award in Michigan. Her non-profit organization renamed PARIS (Political Activism, Relief and Institutional Startups) has partnered with JAAGO Foundation to build a computer lab and deliver VEX robotics education to low-income students. She also qualified the JAAGO team to represent Bangladesh at the VEX World Championship in Dallas in 2022. The organization, renamed Manik & Sefi Foundation, now supports orphaned and abandoned children to mitigate child labor.
The married mother of three adult children, Seema is a residence of Hamtramck and an executive member of the Michigan Democratic Party.