Adán Chavez, Jr.

Adán has over ten years of rewarding experiences empowering people and bringing them into the democratic and policy-making process. At Meta, Adán led and drove the third-party engagement strategy for California state and local external partners, working with the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, state agencies, and the California Legislature to address key company-wide priorities such as election integrity, safety, security, disaster preparedness, and combating misinformation. Prior to Meta, he served as the Deputy Director of Civic Engagement for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund – the nation’s leading nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that facilitates full Latino participation in the American political process, from citizenship to public service – where he led national civic engagement campaigns from the 2020 Census to the 2020 Election. The queer son of Mexican immigrants and proud grandson of a Bracero, Adán is a first-generation graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and an alum of the Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute (JSI) at the University of California, Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Adán has been recognized as Inland Empire’s “30 Under 30” by California Assembly Leader-Emeritus Eloise Gomez Reyes, a Pride Honoree by the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, and has been named a Latino Heritage Month Leader by Congresswoman Norma Torres. As a trained civil rights advocate and civic technologist, while at Princeton, Adán is interested in exploring how technology can advance the public interest.