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Dimple Rana

​Dimple's advocacy for Revere, Massachusetts spans across neighborhoods, sectors, and generations ​of Revere residents. As Director of the City's department of Healthy Community Initiatives and Co-Director of Revere On the Move, she has worked with residents, businesses, and stakeholders to increase access to opportunities for active living, healthy eating, civic engagement, and youth leadership. She is a  recent graduate of Tufts University’s, with a Master in Public Policy from the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning program. Dimple's commitment to building a vibrant, engaged, and active Revere also extends to her work as a champion of small businesses and a longtime civic leader.

Dimple is currently the first woman of color to run for local office in Revere. She is a candidate for 1 of 5 seats as Councillor At-Large. The election is on November 7, 2017.

A first generation Indian American, Dimple grew up in Revere, attending public schools and working in her family’s small, independent convenience stores in the North Shore. At the stores she learned the value and struggles of a small family owned businesses, from the unique perspective of immigrant families. In high school she worked as a peer leader at a youth organization that fostered her love for youth leadership and organizing. After graduating from Hofstra University in Community Health and Education, she returned to Greater Boston and became a community organizer, working with many organizations focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, and LBGTQ and immigrants rights.’ 

In 2012 she returned to Revere and  founded a youth leadership organization, Revere Youth in Action, where young people worked to ensure they had opportunities to grow, lead, and promote a safe, and inclusive community in Revere. In 2016, the Revere Chamber of Commerce named her Youth Mentor of the Year. 

Dimple loves and is deeply committed to her family, especially her young niece and nephews.  Dimple looks up to the older and younger people around her who continue to push, ask questions, challenge the status quo, and who are the change we want to see in our world.

My Speakers Sessions

Friday, October 27
 

1:30pm PDT