Who is Adam Hernandez?

Adam Hernandez grew up in East Lubbock, and is a graduate of Estacado High School and earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in Digital Media Design from Texas State Technical College in Waco, TX. Adam is the CEO and Graphic Media Designer for Slim Baby Creative, a company he has operated since 2004.

Adam is the father to two daughters, one of which he lost to suicide in 2018.

In the summer of 2020, Adam read the Lubbock Disparity Report, written by Dr. Nicholas Bergfeld, which outlined many issues that the city’s historic neighborhoods were facing and the policy decisions that led to them. Having grown up and lived most of his life on the streets of East Lubbock, Adam had first-hand experience with the effect of those policy decisions. He knew he had to get involved and work to make a change.

That same summer, the non-profit called Lubbock Compact was born. Adam serves on the board as the Communications Director. Adam and the Lubbock Compact team routinely engages with public comments at city council meetings, meets with city leaders directly, and educates the community by attending Neighborhood Association Meetings, speaking at numerous community events around town, and through the weekly talk show, Lubbock Compact Live, which broadcasts on the Lubbock Compact Facebook page on Wednesday evenings at 7pm.

Adam is involved in numerous other organizations around Lubbock. He is a Community Partner and mentor at OL Slaton Middle School weekly to young men and women through the Communities in Schools organization. Adam serves as a Board member for South Plains College Real Estate Advisory Board for the South Plains College Career and Technical Center, he was also appointed to the Citizens Advisory Committee for the successfully passed 2022 street bond election where he served as Vice Chair of the committee.

Adam served in a leading role for Freedom Act Lubbock, the petition initiative to decriminalize low-level marijuana possession within city limits, that gathered 10,540 signatures between August and October of this year which is now set to go to the May 2024 ballot for a citizen vote. He served as communications chair for the initiative, as well as helping with planning, strategy, fundraising, volunteer organizing, and collecting signatures.

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  • Since becoming a founding member of Lubbock Compact in the Summer of 2020 and serving as its Communications Chair, I have been heavily involved in local political processes advocating on behalf of Lubbock’s communities and helping to create policy change.
  • Serve as a community partner on a weekly basis with Communities In Schools of the South Plains to mentor and support 6th, 7th, and 8th grade boys and girls groups at O.L. Slaton Middle School.
  • Have organized or helped to organize many events and fundraisers to help with community needs, including period products drives for the students of O.L. Slaton that have brought in thousands of pads and tampons, Christmas fundraisers for families in need, and more.
  • Help with after school programs, Take A Kid to the Game Day, neighborhood cleanups, and many other community events.
  • Successfully advocated for $5 million in the recent street bond to completely rebuild Dunbar/Manhattan Heights neighborhood streets.
  • Helped successfully advocate for a total of $15.5 million dollars to be appropriated for dirt roads in the city, which especially aids North and East Lubbock residents.
  • Part of team that was awarded $486,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor air quality in Lubbock.
  • Helped successfully advocate for the City of Lubbock to create and fill a Neighborhood Planner position to create plans to improve Lubbock’s historic neighborhoods and an additional $500,000 to implement plans. The first two plans have been started in the Dunbar/Manhattan Heights and Jackson/Mahon neighborhoods.
  • Helped to successfully advocate for Lubbock to adopt Impact Fees which helps the city’s growth pay for itself.
  • Helped successfully advocate for the language in the Gateway Street Projects Fund to be changed so that the funds can be used on existing roads and not only brand new roads which will begin as early as 2025. This opens up more funds to fix roads across the city.
  • Organized 3 East Lubbock Empowerment Conferences to address community level challenges that create barriers to progress.
  • Communications Chair on the board of the Lubbock Compact Foundation
  • Board member for South Plains College Real Estate Advisory Board
  • Community Partner with Communities in Schools at OL Slaton Middle School
  • Appointed to and served as Vice Chair on the 2022 Citizen Advisory Committee for the successfully passed 2022 Street Bond
  • Member of the Lubbock chapter of the NAACP
  • Member of the HEARD Coalition (Helping Every Adolescent Reach their Dreams) dealing with youth substance abuse prevention and recovery
  • 2023 NAACP Rose Wilson Leadership Award
  • 2023 Los Hermanos Familia Adelante Award for Civic/Volunteer
  • 2023 Puerto Rican Fest Outstanding Citizen Award
  • 2023 Cannabis Advocate of the Year Award

When I began to get involved in the community as I am now, I simply wanted to be where I could be the most helpful in making our city better.

Over time, many citizens and community leaders asked me to consider running for office, which is something I had never thought of doing before.

After much discussion, prayer, and the shared frustration about how policy is often made in Lubbock, I decided to answer their call.

My only desire or agenda is to make Lubbock as great as it can possibly be.

Our city cannot reach its full potential as long as older neighborhoods are left behind.

We also cannot reach our potential without full transparency and accountability in our local government.

And finally, we cannot reach our full potential by not listening to the input of citizens.

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Adam Hernandez
PO Box 65409
Lubbock, TX 79464