10 things about Northbridge, Massachusetts native Jennifer Guilbeault

Jennifer Guilbeault is an American woman born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, United States. She is a resident of Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA and an alumna of Northbridge High School in Northbridge and Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York City.

BIOGRAPHY

Guilbeault is a former sorority girl. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. She is a former employee of D Pagan Communications in Melville, New York.
2. She is 22 years younger than Queens, New York City’s Shohel Mahmud, a Muslim man who worked as an Uber driver.
3. She was born in 2001.
4. From 2014 to 2019, she attended Northbridge High School.
5. From 2019 to 2023, she attended Manhattan College where she earned her bachelor’s degree in public relations, advertising and applied communication.
6. From 2020 to 2023, she was a member of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).
7. In 2022, she was a public relations intern at The Door and at Jennifer Bett Communications.
8. In 2023, she was a marketing and public relations intern at 3d Public Relations and Marketing and a legal, business and technology affairs intern at Major League Baseball before joining D Pagan Communications.
9. In 2024, she was arrested for pepper-spraying Mahmud, then 45.
10. In 2025, she pleaded guilty to attacking Mahmud and avoided prison time.

TIMELINE

When Guilbeault made headlines for pepper-spraying Mahmud in 2024, she was employed as a public relations assistant. She was represented by Michael J. Alber.

2023

• On November 1, 2023, she joined D Pagan Communications as a public relations assistant.

2024

• On the evening of July 30, 2024, she and a friend were the passengers of Mahmoud.
• At around 12:15 a.m. on July 31, 2024, she was caught on camera leaning forward from the back seat and pepper spraying Mahmoud in the face when he began praying in Arabic at a stop light on the Upper East Side in New York City. Shortly after, he called 911 and she was arrested at the scene.
• On August 5, 2024, D Pagan Communications responded to what she did to Mahmoud through a statement that read, “We are aware of the behavior of this former employee and we don’t condone this behavior.”
• On August 19, 2024, she was arraigned on charges of assault and assault as a hate crime and was granted supervised release after the arraignment.
• On October 28, 2024, she was indicted on multiple hate crime charges. She was charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with second-degree aggravated harassment, second-degree assault as a hate crime and third-degree assault as a hate crime and was released after pleading not guilty to the charges.

2025

• On April 21, 2025, she pleaded guilty to one felony count of aggravated harassment in the second degree before judge Laura Ward in the New York State Supreme Court. As part of the plea deal, she was required to to complete 100 hours of community service within a year and have therapy and anti-bias and alcohol abuse programs.
• On April 22, 2025, Mahmud told the New York Post that he did not want her to be incarcerated because he is a religious person who believes in forgiveness.