At the beginning of this year, the political world didn’t know who New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was.

However, by June, New York media had plastered his name across the headlines. And at the beginning of November, he was elected to lead the nation’s largest city. Many in his orbit credit former campaign manager Elle Bisgaard-Church, whom Mamdani just appointed as his chief of staff, for familiarizing the world with Mamdani.