He teaches French in a black neighborhood, and tries to have an impact on his students lives. He volunteers in the campaign of a Democrat candidate for mayor, and gets noticed for his dynamism. He meets Senator Barack Obama in 2006, and joins his campaign as a « community organizer » in the Cuyahoga county. In 2009, he becomes Chairman of the International Affairs of the Democrat Youth in the USA. In 2012, he was the national co-chair of Generation 44 for the reelection campaign. Thione Niang now leads structurally different, but substantially similar international organizations: his foundation Give1project, his farming enterprise JeufZone Farms, Akon Lighting Africa and Solektra International.