2022 race briefing
Shervin Aazami ran as a Democrat for the U.S. House in California’s 32nd Congressional District in 2022, challenging incumbent Democrat Brad Sherman.
Aazami was born in Bologna, Italy. He earned a bachelor’s degree from UCLA in 2013 and graduate degrees from George Washington University in 2019 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. He worked as legislative director of the National Indian Health Board, a national Indigenous health care nonprofit.
In the June 7, 2022 top-two primary he finished third with 9.2% of the vote. Sherman (53.7%) and Republican Lucie Volotzky (19.7%) advanced, and Sherman won the November 8, 2022 general election. PolRev covered his 2022 campaign.