Adam Sarvana Launches Candidacy for Chair of Pima County Democratic Party

Adam Sarvana, a Tucson Democratic leader and media-savvy public employee, announced that he is running to be the next Chair of the Pima County Democratic Party.

He has no opponent at the moment, and current Chair Eric Robbins said he is not running for re-election. Pima County has about 240,000 registered Democrats according to the County Recorder.

“What the Democratic Party really needs more of, especially as we head into the presidential election, is more communication with the public. We need to bring people together who haven’t been working together in a long time,” he said.

“I want to bring together the connections I have with the Grijalva wing of the party, the moderate wing of the party, and people who feel disenfranchised from politics.”

The Pima Democratic Party has 626 Democratic Precinct Committee people in Pima County today, a 54.57% increase, according to Executive Director Alex Kack.

Sarvana, age 43, spoke at the Sept. 22 meeting of the LD18 Democrats.

Democratic Party experience

Sarvana’s career has focused on environmental justice, air quality and access to water.

• Program Director for Democrats of Greater Tucson.
• Precinct committee person in LD18. Recently, he has canvassed for the LD17 legislative candidates. See TheDGT.org Endorses Soto, Volk, and Lyon in Battleground LD17 State Legislative Races
• Mayor Regina Romero’s Director of Communications and Community Engagement from 2025-2026.
• Communications Director for Rep. Raúl Grijalva from 2009 to 2014 in Washington, D.C.
• Communications Director for the House Natural Resources Committee from 2015 to 2022, advancing Democratic messaging on conservation, climate, public lands, tribal issues, energy, and environmental justice.
• Director of Communications and External Engagement for the Assistant Secretary for Health from 2022 to 2025, focusing on public health, health equity, nutrition, and federal-to-local partnerships.
• Communications Director for Shenna Bellows’ 2014 U.S. Senate campaign in Maine.

“I’m running for Chair because I want to use many of the same skills I just described,” he said.

“I want us all to start seeing each other as part of the same community again. At the same time, I want to bring a little more professionalism to the Democratic Party in ways I have seen us fail at the federal level. I want continuity of best practices at the LD level. I want us to start having LD meetings again where we talk about what works and what doesn’t work.”

“I’d like to start talking to people more in person about their ideas and how we can start making a plan and putting it into practice,” he concluded.