David Martinez III (he/him) serves as a director at Vitalyst Health Foundation that partners across the state of Arizona, overseeing the foundation’s grant programming and Civic Health portfolio, which includes the census. In 2020, he helped organize local funders to Get Out the Count efforts that specifically focused on historically undercounted communities on tribal lands, in communities of color, and in rural counties. It also included hosting workshops with Census staff and community-based organizations to engage nonprofits in the count.

David remains focused on building and sustaining civic infrastructure towards the 2030 Census, especially engaging more funders in Census efforts, engaging LGBTQ communities in census design, and making the connection that civic health efforts like the census are critical to the health of our democracy. He is Vice Chair of the Funders Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) Census Initiative and is active with Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) and Grantmakers in Health (GIH). He also serves as an advisor to the National Trust for Civic Infrastructure, an effort born out of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.

Originally from Marana in rural Southern Arizona and one of six children, David is a first-generation college graduate earning a B.A. in Secondary Education, Political Science, and Journalism from The University of Arizona (UA). He served as Student Regent on the Arizona Board of Regents, worked at the UA Office of Institutional Equity, and interned with Congressman Raul Grijalva. He is a Flinn-Brown Fellow with the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership and serves as a trustee of the Desert Botanical Garden.