Arizona State House of Representatives Legislator

Oscar De Los Santos




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Office
State House Representative

District
LD 11

Term
2021-2025

Level
state

Activity

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About

De Los Santos was born in Los Angeles to Gregorio and María Dolores. They were immigrants from Tenamaxtlán. In 2012, he was the youngest Florida field organizer for the Obama campaign. In 2015, he completed a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Southern California where he graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Truman scholar. From 2015 to 2016, he taught English and social studies to sixth graders at Champion South Mountain School in Phoenix, Arizona. He interned for the National Economic Council and the U.S. House Of Representatives. De Los Santos was a lobbyist and head of public policy for the Association of Arizona Food Banks. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed a master's in public policy from the University of Oxford in 2018. He earned a master's degree in Christian social ethics from the Union Theological Seminary in 2020.[2] He is a J.D. student at Yale Law School and received a The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2022. During the 2022 Arizona House of Representatives election, De Los Santos was elected to represent District 11. He is the first out LGBT person to represent District 11.

Education

B.A. Political Science - University of Southern California

Experience

De Los Santos, a Florida field organizer for the Obama campaign, holds a bachelor's degree in political science from USC and a master's in public policy from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Champion South Mountain School and served as head of public policy for the Association of Arizona Food Banks. Elected to represent District 11 in the Arizona House of Representatives, he is the first openly LGBT person in this role.