‘Not my first rodeo’: meet the 21-year-old serving as Georgia’s youngest state legislator

Democrat Muhammad Akbar Ali joins the Georgia state house as a legislator representing an Atlanta suburb Muhammad Akbar Ali, a 21-year-old recent college graduate, won a runoff election for a state house seat in Atlanta’s suburbs earlier this month, becoming the youngest Georgia state legislator serving today – perhaps the youngest ever. The key to the young Democrat’s victory and his strategy moving forward? Experience.