David Leon Zink was raised in Oroville, graduated from Las Plumas High School and CSU Chico, and now lives in Magalia. He is married to his college sweetheart, Lori, and they have a lovely daughter.
Throughout his career, David raised hundreds of millions of dollars for organizations that make our world better – faith-based charities, California cities and counties, hospitals and health services, colleges and universities, and non-profit institutions. He has guided social service associations to listen to their customers, so they can solve tough problems and grow, and he developed novel solutions when the old methods stopped working.
My family and I lost three homes in the recent fires. I know the consequences of climate change firsthand, and leveraged my experience to challenge now-Vice President Kamala Harris at CNN’s 2019 Presidential Candidate Town Hall on the climate crisis. I believe in carrots before sticks – incentives before regulation. I will look for ways to ease the financial pain of transition to a low-greenhouse gas economy that are good for the bottom lines of taxpayers, business, and our natural systems.