Sadaf F. Jaffer (born February 19, 1983) is an American academic and politician who represented the 16th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2022 to 2024.

She did not seek re-election in the 2023 New Jersey General Assembly election for personal reasons.

[4] She attended the Latin School of Chicago, earned a bachelor's degree in foreign service from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a PhD in near-eastern languages and civilizations from Harvard University.

[5][6] In 2011, Jaffer married Daniel Sheffield,[7] an assistant professor in the Near-Eastern Studies Department at Princeton University.

[10] After trailing behind Republican Vinny Panico for the second Assembly seat by nearly 300 votes in data published the night of the election[11] she won alongside Roy Freiman in the final results, more than 2,500 votes ahead of Panico.