By Sheryl Estrada
Just weeks after her win in a Minnesota House race, Ilhan Omar,the nation’s first Somali American Muslim woman legislator,said she endured the most “hateful, derogatory, Islamophobic, sexist” experience of her life.
Omar was visiting Washington, D.C., this week to attend the State Innovation Exchange conference held Monday and Tuesday. It was the first mass meeting of hundreds of Democratic lawmakers since President-elect Donald Trump’s win.
