Dianne Morales
Dianne Morales | |
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. |
June 21, 1967
Education | Stony Brook University (BA) Harvard University (MA) Columbia University (MEd) |
Political party | Democratic |
Website | Campaign website |
Dianne Morales is an American nonprofit executive and politician. She was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2021 New York City mayoral election.[1]
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Early life and education
Morales is Afro-Latina; her parents are from Puerto Rico.[2][3] She 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.[4][5]
Morales then went on to attend Stony Brook University[2] and earned a Master of Social Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Master of Education Administration from Columbia University.[6][7][8]
Career
While working at the New York City Department of Education, Morales helped open the Office of Youth Development and School-Community Services under Chancellor Joel Klein, and served as its Chief of Operations from 2002 to 2004.[9][10] From 2004 to 2005, she served as a director of The Teaching Commission, a national task force that focuses on improving teaching quality in American schools.[11] Morales was a founding member of Jumpstart, a national early childhood nonprofit organization.[9][12] From 2005 to 2009, she served as executive director of The Door, a youth-development organization that serves over 11,000 young people every year.[13][14]
Since 2010 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.[15][3][10][11] She serves on the board of the NYC Human Services Council and the Community Schools Advisory Board.[16][11]
In 2011, she founded the charter school Broome Street Academy.[17]
2021 NYC Mayoral campaign
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In 2019, Morales announced her candidacy for Mayor of New York City in the 2021 election.[1] In January 2020 she quit her job to campaign full time,[18][19] in her first political campaign.[18]
Her 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.[20][21][22][9] Morales also 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.[23] The New York Daily News in November 2020 described her as one of the most progressive candidates in the race.[24] If elected, she would have become the city's first Afro-Latina mayor and its first female mayor.[25][26]
In May 2021, senior staffers campaign manager Whitney Hu and senior adviser Ifeoma Ike resigned from the campaign.[27] Four other women attempting to unionize remaining staffers were fired.[17] The departures were preceded by allegations of racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and employee abuse.[28] The New York Times reported on June 9, 2021: "At least four political groups, including the Working Families Party, have rescinded their endorsements, donations slowed to a crawl and her senior adviser has joined a rival campaign."[27]
Morales finished in sixth place in the Democratic primary election held on June 22, 2021.
Personal life
Morales is a single mother and lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant with her two children and her parents.[4]
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