David Garcia Ozua is an economist with over a decade of experience advancing community, economic, and civic initiatives in the South Bay of San Diego County. He has built social service programs that deliver more than 27,000 services annually to local families, and has directed over $3.5 million in investments to first-time business owners, fostering entrepreneurship and economic mobility.
In civic leadership, David successfully campaigned for a $459 million investment in South Bay public schools and later served as a Bond Oversight Committee Member to ensure accountability and transparency in the use of funds. Earlier in his career, he contributed to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, where he supported the monthly publication of the Consumer Price Index, one of the nation’s most critical measures of inflation.