Adam Delgado ’12

Adam Delgado '12 joined the Board for a three-year term on July 1, 2021. A politics major, he is currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a User Experience Researcher at Facebook, Inc., where he co-founded the new Community Trust & Safety team to focus on equitable engineering and product development. Previously, as a Product Researcher at Instagram, he supported launches of the COVID-19 and US 2020 information centers, helping millions of people find vaccines and register to vote. Since graduation, he has worked for Google, Cooley, International Monetary Fund and Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, D.C. Adam is also an alumni fellow of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit supporting career development and advancement for underrepresented students, and participates in the MLT Ascend program to support early persistence and career readiness for first-generation, low-income college students. He has supported and advocated for first-generation, LGBTQ and students of color on campus through the Intercultural Center and was the first student representative for diversity and inclusion to the Whitman Board of Trustees. With his service on the alumni board, Adam hopes to connect with alumni and advance the current diversity, equity and inclusion efforts of the college.