Dini in a Nutshell
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Hoboken's budget is broken. We are getting priced out of the city we love
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Dini has the skills our city needs today. She has served as:
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
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Assistant State Treasurer for the State of New Jersey
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Dini is the only person running who is not a member of the city council that brought us to where we are today
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Dini will not take any money from special interest groups
Dedicated to Hoboken
Dini Ajmani is running to be mayor of Hoboken—her home with her husband, daughters, and their dog. She has the experience Hoboken needs right now. Dini has protected tax dollars as Assistant State Treasurer in Phil Murphy’s administration and worked to lower housing costs as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. She understands the challenges our city faces—rising rents, infrastructure issues, and public safety concerns.
Dini believes in smart governance, fiscal responsibility, and policies that improve our everyday life. She will put her experience from running large organizations to work.
Dini’s top priorities
Lower Property Taxes
Bring Hoboken back on a sound fiscal path
Increase Accountability
Bring transparency to the Hoboken Governance
Improve our Quality of Life
Parking, Safety, E-bikes, Parks, Transportation.
Preserve Hoboken's Charm
Save Hoboken's unique character
ABOUT
Dini’s life story is a testament to the ideals of hope and opportunity that define America. Raised in a small town in India, Dini was brought up by a father who was a welder, and a homemaker mother. Their hard work and dedication instilled in Dini a deep appreciation for possibility and perseverance.
She gained expertise in management with an MBA from Stanford University. Prior to that, she received a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin.
After school, Dini and her husband of now 37 years, Sonny, found their true home in the Garden State, eventually deciding to settle in Hoboken after one fateful evening when their NJ Transit train was cancelled and redirected to Hoboken. It was love at first sight for both of them, and perhaps the best thing to ever come out of an NJ Transit failure. Together, they raised two daughters while Dini worked her way up the ranks as one of the few women on a rough-and-tumble Wall Street trading floor.
Dini is deeply committed to giving back to the community and country that has offered her and her family so much. Over the last decade, she has harnessed her expertise in economics and finance—and experience with managing teams of hundreds of people — to some of the hardest issues in public service.
In 2018, Dini brought her passion for transparency and accountability in government budgeting to state government as the Assistant State Treasurer. There, she worked to stabilize New Jersey’s finances and fought to protect state pension benefits and negotiated aggressively with insurance companies to get New Jerseyans a better deal on health benefits. In recognition of her efforts, in 2021 President Biden appointed Dini as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, where she worked to help the U.S. economy recover from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and lower housing costs.
All the while, Dini has become deeply embedded in the Hoboken community, serving on the Hoboken Planning Board and supporting local institutions that enhance the quality of life in the city.
Dini is ready to draw upon her experiences and record of service to help shape Hoboken’s next chapter as Mayor. She will fight to preserve the city’s unique character, support our families so they can thrive, and finally give Hoboken a government that is both responsive and responsible in addressing the many challenges the city faces.