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Ayanna Pressley

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Ayanna Pressley is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Ayanna Pressley · Ayanna Soyini Pressley · Αιαννα Πρεσσλη · Аянна ПРЕССЛИ · Аянна Пресли · 8 more...				[sources]
Other name	Ayanna S. Pressley · Ayanna Soyini Pressley · Pressley, Ayanna · Rep. Ayanna S. Pressley · Аянна Сойини Прессли · 2 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	阿亚娜·普雷斯利 · 阿娅娜·普莱斯利 · 阿雅娜·普雷斯利				[sources]
Birth date	1974-02-03				[sources]
Place of birth	Cincinnati				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Ayanna · Soyini				[sources]
Last name	Pressley				[sources]
Phone	+12022255111				[sources]
Title	Ms.				[sources]
Website	ayannapressley.com · pressley.house.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q13562359				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2019-) · member of the United States House of Representatives (2019-2021) · member of the United States House of Representatives (2021-) · член Палаты представителей от Демократической партии (шт. Массачусетс)				[sources]
Education	Boston University · Francis W. Parker School				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Russia	Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации		-	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Conan Harris Close Associate	spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2021	2023
United States representative	2021-01-03

Data sources

Russia Personal Sanctions Targeting US Citizens2,169

A list of US citizens under personal sanctions by the Russian Federation.

Russia · MFA

US Members of the Congress1,334

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States · Congress

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,163

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories360,954

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,700

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,882

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-23222dab-aed6-4e0a-89d9-bcf9294f1d78 · ru-mfa-fa77aae7a03fb4c4e15799769ad6ba5a82ed76cc · us-congress-34e91a8bd41e766a5890b89576b48633d507edd4

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