Representative Oscar De Los Santos

Oscar De Los Santos is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives. He was elected to represent District 11 in 2022.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Oscar is the son of Gregorio and María Dolores, both immigrants from Tenamaxtlán. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Southern California in 2015, where he graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He was also a Truman scholar.

As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford in 2018. He earned a master’s degree in Christian social ethics from the Union Theological Seminary in 2020. He is currently a Juris Doctor student at Yale Law School and received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2022.

In 2012, De Los Santos was the youngest Florida field organizer for the Obama campaign. From 2015 to 2016, he taught English and social studies to sixth graders at Champion South Mountain School in Phoenix, Arizona. He also interned for the National Economic Council and the U.S. House Of Representatives.

De Los Santos was a lobbyist and head of public policy for the Association of Arizona Food Banks. During the 2022 Arizona House of Representatives election, De Los Santos was elected to represent the 11th district. He is the first out LGBT person to represent the district.