PoP contributor Tony Lizza has taken on the mission of interviewing some Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) reps and this is the second in a small series. You can read the first installment ‘Oliver Tunda: The mayor of Mt. Pleasant’ here. If you know of a particularly interesting ANC member please email me.
David Tumblin is an incredibly busy man. Between his full-time job as a director with the Transportation Security Administration, his duties as an ANC member (4C), and his family, David barely had time for an interview. When we finally got time to sit down last week to talk, we didn’t get a chance to talk in person. We had a dilatory afternoon phone call, a testament to just how dedicated he is to all three of his roles.
David was raised in Tennessee, and attended the University of Tennessee, where among other things, he was a drummer in a rock band. Mercifully, he says, there are no pictures of his rock band years available on the Internet. After college, David moved to Washington to attend graduate school at Georgetown. He received his masters’ degree in Foreign Service and his government job took him from DC to San Francisco, and finally brought him back to DC. A note of regret in his voice suggests he might have liked, at least at the time, to remain in San Francisco. He now works for the Transportation Security Administration as the director of workforce analysis in the Office of Human Capital.
David first became interested in running for the ANC by reading Prince of Petworth. Ed. Note: I had no idea, sweet! After a heated discussion on the website, the chair of ANC 4C directly appealed to readers to get involved and run for seats on the ANC. David took the chairperson up on that request, ran for ANC, and will now have been serving for two years at the end of the year. He cites the example of a previous ANC member, Peron Williams, who he says, “knew everyone”, although he admits that he’s better at problem solving than community outreach.
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