BackgroundCongressional candidate

EducationUniversity of California, Irvine — B.A., Political Science (international relations focus) (2020)

Notable personal detailsTarik Samman is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Massachusetts’s 5th Congressional District (2026). He has worked in academia, including in a research role at Harvard Law School, and has been involved in organizing and labor activity connected to Harvard’s academic workers. He earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Irvine (2020) and an M.S. in data science from Columbia University (2022).