Organization: LVMPD Volunteers
Location: Southern Nevada
Personal Quote: “I have lived all over the US and travelled the world and I intend to make a difference in my State.”
Leilani Kimmel-Dagostino was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but raised and educated in Chicago. In 1998 she earned an MBA in Quantitative Analysis from Pepperdine University, and in 2002 gained a Registered Financial Planner certificate and became a Registered Financial Consultant.
She has lived all over the US because of her affiliation with the airline industry and her husbands military and federal government career. Over the course of her 40 year airline career she worked in a multitude of areas, gaining valuable experience. After finding themselves in Torrance, CA Leilani served on the Torrance Commission on Aging for 8 years, and was a candidate for Torrance City Council in 2014 and 2016.
In early 2017, she and her husband retired and relocated to Las Vegas, NV. She immediately wanted to find ways to volunteer her services to the city and graduated from the LVMPD Citizens Police Academy and became a LVMPD Volunteer working on the Handicap Parking Ticket Patrol, supervising the hiring of new Police Officers, and other community events.
In late 2017, Governor Sandoval appointed her to serve on the Nevada Commission on Aging, where she served two terms and termed out in 2021/ In December of 2021, Governor Sisolak appointed her to serve on the Nevada Volunteers Commission and she looks forward to serving the needs of the people in Nevada in another capacity.
