Adam Sarvana Announces Run for Pima County Democratic Party Chair

Adam Sarvana, a Tucson-based Democratic organizer and communications professional, announced a run for Chair of the Pima County Democratic Party. He faces no opponent at the time of the announcement, and current Chair Eric Robbins is not running for re-election.

Sarvana frames his candidacy around three practical goals: better communication with the public, reconnecting different wings of the local party, and bringing more professional, repeatable practices to local Democratic organizations. At a Sept. 22 LD18 Democrats meeting he said, "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."

According to the article, Pima County has about 240,000 registered Democrats (County Recorder figure cited) and the Pima Democratic Party currently lists 626 Democratic Precinct Committee people, a 54.57% increase reported by Executive Director Alex Kack. Those figures set the organizational backdrop for Sarvana's pitch about outreach and coordination ahead of major upcoming elections.

Sarvana's résumé, as presented in the article, emphasizes communications and public engagement across federal, state, and local roles:

• Program Director for Democrats of Greater Tucson.

• Director of Communications and Community Engagement for Tucson Mayor Regina Romero (2025–2026).
• Communications Director for Rep. Raúl Grijalva (2009–2014).
• Communications Director for the House Natural Resources Committee (2015–2022), focusing on conservation, climate, public lands, tribal issues, energy, and environmental justice.
• Director of Communications and External Engagement for the Assistant Secretary for Health (2022–2025), working on public health, health equity, nutrition, and federal-to-local partnerships.
• Communications Director for Shenna Bellows' 2014 U.S. Senate campaign in Maine.

At the time of the announcement Sarvana has no declared primary opponent for the Pima County chair position. The piece positions his candidacy as occurring with the 2026 presidential election cycle approaching, which Sarvana uses as a rationale for prioritizing communication and coordination.

Sarvana is entering the Pima County Democratic Party chair race with a communications-heavy background and a platform focused on outreach, unity across party factions, and operational improvements at the district level. Party registration and precinct leadership numbers cited in the article frame the scale of the organizing challenge he says he wants to address.