Dianne Morales was a candidate in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary.
10 Facts About Dianne Morales
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Dianne Morales was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, growing up on DeKalb Avenue, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in New York City.
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Dianne Morales was a founding member of Jumpstart, a national early childhood nonprofit organization.
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Since 2010 Dianne Morales had been the executive director and CEO of Phipps Neighborhoods in the South Bronx, a Bronx social services organization that fights poverty, until she stepped down to run for mayor in 2019.
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Dianne Morales serves on the board of the NYC Human Services Council and the Community Schools Advisory Board.
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In 2019, Dianne Morales announced her candidacy for Mayor of New York City in the 2021 election.
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Dianne Morales's campaign-announced priorities include reforming the New York City Housing Authority, desegregating city schools, promoting equitable and affordable mass transit, creating green jobs, building affordable housing, a guaranteed minimum income, rent cancellation, cutting the New York Police Department budget, an elected police oversight body, and reforming the police.
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Dianne Morales is looking to create a "community first responders department" to respond to non-criminal issues such as homelessness and mental health that are currently handled by the police.
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Dianne Morales finished in sixth place in the Democratic primary election held on June 22,2021.
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Dianne Morales is a single mother and lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant with her two children and her parents.