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.