Asian American

  • Aftab Pureval elected as Cincinnati’s first Asian American mayor.

    Aftab Pureval elected as Cincinnati’s first Asian American mayor.

    Pureval, 38, the son of a Tibetan refugee mother and an Indian father, won the Mayoral election by defeating his opponent David Mann. Pureval, a half-Indian, half-Tibetan immigrant, is seen as a rising political star in the state. After airing advertising with a stuffed duck quacking his name – “Aftab!” – in a campaign reminiscent…