The DC Center is proud to welcome Martin Espinoza to the DC Center Board of Directors. Martin is one of eight new board members that begin their term this month.
Martin Espinoza is very excited to be joining the board of The DC Center.

Upon moving to Phoenix from his native Yuma, Ariz., in 2001 at age 18, Martin met Neil Giuliano, the former Tempe, Ariz., mayor and GLAAD director who's now with an AIDS group in San Francisco. And Steve May, a former member of the Arizona House for whom Espinoza worked for several years.

He also met Chuck Wolfe from the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, which led, eventually, to Espinoza moving to Washington in 2008 to join the Victory Fund staff as their director of events.

Espinoza is also the co-founder of Stonewall Kickball, a non-profit gay kickball league of 20 teams that plays spring and fall seasons on Sunday afternoons behind JR.'s. Stonewall raised over $7,500 for the center last year and has made a pledge of $10,000 for 2012.

Martin recently started a new journey at Hanley Wood LLC, a Washington based company as their Manager of Event Services.