David Villalobos was born and raised in Laredo, Texas a border town community.
After graduating from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a political science degree, David worked as a canvasser for Mi Familia Vota, a non-profit organization focused on engaging the Latino community. In his time there, David registered hundreds of individuals to vote and encouraged thousands of inner city residents and college students in San Antonio to cast a ballot.
David currently works at the Texas Organizing Project, a community organizing group fighting for racial and economic justice. He has worked on community organizing campaigns that include the areas of housing justice, education justice, immigration justice, and criminal justice reform. David directed TOP’s biggest get out the vote program in Dallas for the 2018 midterm leading a team that knocked on over a quarter of a million doors.