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| Meet The Newly Elected Lexington Town Meeting Members |
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Samita Mandelia has been a Lexington resident for more than ten years. She lives with her husband, Ashish, their daughter, Ishika, a junior at Lexington High School, their son Aarav, a 6th grader at Diamond Middle School, and Bruno, their labradoodle dog. She has been a consistently active volunteer in the Lexington community, including serving as a room parent and assisting teachers for several years. She has also been a member of the PTO board, where she successfully raised funds for the Estabrook school community. She has been actively organizing local cultural events that have brought together the town residents, proceeds of which were donated to local organizations such as Lexington Education Foundation, Cary Memorial Library Foundation, and others.
She is a realtor by profession with an accounting background and cares about overcoming the challenges associated with balancing residential taxes while simultaneously maintaining the local heritage, protecting the interests of our seniors and maintaining our excellent schools. She is very grateful to the town of Lexington and its culturally diverse community. She and her family have benefited greatly from living in this town, and she hopes to give back by serving as a Town Meeting Member.
Umesh Shelat, Precinct 7
Umesh Shelat's wife is an engineering manager at a large software company, and Umesh manages a private investment fund (they also have a skincare products company, Lexington Soaps). They have lived in Lexington for twelve years with their two boys, ages 14 and 16. The boys have attended Estabrook Elementary, Diamond Middle, and are currently studying at Lexington High School. From 2010 – 2014, Umesh has been an active proponent for the design and construction of the new Estabrook elementary school. Currently, given the impending demolition of the Minuteman Tech pool, he is engaged in working with the Lexington School administration to design a short-term and long-term solution for swim facilities for the LHS Swim Teams.
Rina Kodendera, Precinct 6
Rina has lived in Lexington for seven years. Her son graduated from LHS, and her daughter is a senior at LHS. She is the VP of Membership on the LHS PTO board. For four years, she has run sessions for parents of high schoolers to help navigate high school and the college application processes. She has been part of the LHS Schedule Committee.
She has done her master’s in computer application. She has led the learning and development function at multiple global companies. She currently leads learning at a large tech company. She plans to help foster a strong Lexington by:
1) Connecting Communities
2) Increasing the value for our tax dollars
Vineeta Kumar has lived in Lexington for ten years, along with her husband who is a software professional and son, who is an LHS student.
Vineeta is a Management Consultant and has been in the consulting industry for over 25 years, most recently working in the Financial Services area. It’s important for Vineeta to live a meaningful life full of compassion and courage, pursuing her many passions beyond professional success. She finds civic engagement and community building activities immensely fulfilling and volunteers through various organizations, events and projects, lending her voice, time and resources to important issues and initiatives. Vineeta currently serves as a Board member at Lexington Education Foundation, is a co-President of LHS PTO and a member of TMMA Executive Committee.
Dr. Dinesh Patel, Precinct 6
Dinesh G. Patel M.D., is Emeritus Chief of Arthroscopic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Patel is known as one of the founding fathers of Arthroscopic surgery. He has been in U.S. News and World reports as one of the best doctors. In February 2002. Boston Magazine voted him by his peers as one of the top doctors in the field of Orthopedics and he has have received many awards nationally and globally. He was Chairman of the Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachussets. During this time he helped the immigrant Russian Jewish doctors get medical licenses and for which AJC gave him a special Appreciation award “Compassionate approach for immigrantsâ€. In November 2003, he was honored by Governor Weld as one of the best new immigrants in Massachusetts.
He has been a resident of Lexington for 44 years. His children went through the Lexington schools. He has been elected by his constituents as town member for two three years terms.
He has given talks at Lexington community center in the field of orthopedic surgery and has given talk at Cary library as well. His interests are education, health care, concerns of senior citizens and children’s needs for education.
He was involved in the topic of Marijuana and was actively involved in proposing idea of including crematory facility with the redevelopment of west view cemetery in Lexington. His hobby has been photography and he had an exhibit in Cary library exhibiting the Spirit of this town.
Shailesh Chandra, Precinct 8
Shailesh (Sunny) Chandra has lived in Lexington with his wife, Shubhra Chandra, for 25+ years. Their two children were born in Lexington and went through the Public Schools. Sunny has been a room parent, LEF volunteer, and town meeting member. His career spans management consulting to business development and strategy in high-tech. He cares about the balance between taxes and spending, school overcrowding, and overbuilding in town.
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