David Graham-Caso joined the LALCV Board of Directors in the summer of 2011 and currently serves as the Chair of LALCV’s Communications Committee. In his day-job, David works as the Communications Director for Los Angeles City Councilmember Richard Alarcón.

David joined Councilmember Alarcón’s office in November of 2011 after serving as the Deputy Press Secretary for the Sierra Club, the largest grassroots environmental organization in the country, where he managed the strategic communications and media relations for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign in the Western United States, as well as the Sierra Club’s messaging and communications work regarding clean energy development across the country. Though most of his time with the Sierra Club was spent working on coal and clean energy-related issues, David also worked on a variety of other efforts. He was dispatched to the Gulf Coast shortly after the BP Disaster began in the Spring of 2010 to manage the Sierra Club’s on-the-ground media relations efforts surrounding the response to the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history and he managed and coordinated statewide communications for the Sierra Club’s nationally-recognized “No on Proposition 23″ effort during the fall 2010 election cycle.

David has been active in politics since he was young and has volunteered on a variety of statewide and regional campaigns. In the 2010 election cycle, David was asked to speak on behalf of candidates for State Board of Equalization, Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner and Governor. He has also previously worked as a Voter Contact Representative for the California Democratic Party.

In addition to David’s volunteer service with LALCV, he is involved in a series of other progressive non-profit and political organizations, including the New Leaders Council (a progressive leadership training program), the Truman National Security Project (a non-partisan, non-profit organization that trains young progressive leaders to effectively speak about national security issues) and the Los Angeles County Young Democrats (the largest Young Democratic Club in the state of California), for which he currently serves as the organization’s President.

After graduating from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science and an emphasis in American Government, David spent three-years at a public affairs firm based in Studio City, where he served as a media relations specialist and gained experience dealing with a wide range of statewide and regional issues, including energy, water, land-use and entitlement processes, environmental issues and health care.

David currently lives in the Beverly Grove area of Los Angeles with his fiancée Lindsay.