Henry R. Muñoz III
Henry R. Muñoz III (born December 1959) is an American businessperson and activist. He has used his wealth to launch national movements including Momento Latino, TheDream.US and Latino Victory to support the Latino community through awareness, college funding and electoral support.
Henry R. Muñoz III | |
|---|---|
| Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee | |
| In office January 2013 – May 5, 2019 | |
| Succeeded by | Chris Korge |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Henry Ruben Muñoz III December 1959 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Loyola University New Orleans (BA) |
He is the cofounder of SOMOS US, a healthcare network in NYC treating largely immigrant communities that has been at the forefront of battling the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the former chairman of the Board & CEO of Muñoz & Company, one of the largest and oldest minority-owned design practices in the country. Under his leadership, Muñoz & Company pioneered an approach to architecture, urban planning, and design that acknowledges the imprint of the Latino community upon the built environment of the United States. He helped found the effort to create a Latino Museum on the Mall in Washington D.C., as chairman of the commission to study the viability of the creation of the National Museum of the American Latino.
He was appointed as DNC Finance Chair by President Barack Obama in January 2013. He was re-elected unanimously by the DNC for his second term in 2017. He was the longest serving Finance Chair in DNC History. He is now Finance Chair emeritus of the Democratic National Committee, the first Latino and openly gay man to ever hold that position.
Muñoz bought the comedy studio Funny or Die in May 2021.