David Quimbayo

David Quimbayo is currently an undergraduate History student at Loyola Marymount University and has been a student research assistant with the Center since 2008 and additionally a Rains scholar since 2009. After participating in LCSLA's 2008 Presidential Exit Poll, he joined the student staff and has since worked on a variety of projects, most notably the political sector of the Leadership Initiative. This project includes identifying the elected officials in the top 300 positions in California over the past 50 years, researching their ethnicities, and compiling one of the first datasets of its kind to track the inclusion of minorities into top political positions.

While attending Loyola Marymount University, David participated in the 2008 APEC Conference as a student delegate in Lima, Peru, interviewing business and political leaders from 19 economies. He also took part in LMU's Sacramento Seminar course, in which students travel to the State Capital to get a first-hand look into the Politics of California. His future interests include studying international law and business.