Shakeel Dalal is the founder and president of LAUNCH Longmont Housing, a grassroots organization dedicated to ensuring that as Longmont grows, it becomes an attainable community with robust walkability, bikability, and public transit.
From 2018 to 2020 he served on the Board of Advisors of the Longmont Observer, a non-profit newspaper, and then Longmont Public Media from 2020 to 2023. He has served on the board of the Longmont Community Foundation since 2021.
While professionally focused on science, Shakeel has always held a deep appreciation for the humanities and the ways they enrich the human experience. He has been interested in civics since he was young and strongly believes in the power of the written and spoken word.