| Adam was born and raised in Iowa City, when his parents moved from Venezuela in order for his dad to train at the University of Iowa with the plan of leaving Iowa after three years. That plan changed when they fell in love with Iowa and decided that the strong community and world-class public schools made it the best place to raise kids.
Adam received a wonderful public education at City High and went to college at the University of Chicago. In middle and high school Adan volunteered for the Obama and Clinton campaigns and in college organized my classmates to make calls for the 2018 midterms in Iowa.
The urgency of the 2020 elections inspired Zabner to become more involved in politics. He took time off of school to work as an organizer for the Pete Buttigieg campaign, then as the regional organizing director for the Iowa Democratic Party in northwest Iowa during the general election. Adam knocked on tens of thousands of doors and met people all over the state who are working to make Iowa stronger. Working for Heidi Heitkamp's One Country Project he helped put together a playbook for how Democrats can be effective in rural America, and working for Jon Ossoff's campaign for US Senate he saw the end result of what decades of hard work and organizing can achieve. Adam's work in organizing has prepared him to work tirelessly to move this state forward. |