ABOUT
Tim Hernández has the community roots and experience statewide to represent us from Westwood to the Northside.
Growing Up
Tim Hernández is a teacher, a Chicano, and a proud Northsider. Like so many Denver families, Tim experienced firsthand the impacts of poverty, instability, and displacement. Born in Pueblo and raised in several communities across Colorado, he went to seven schools in seven years before finding stability and a home in Denver’s Northside.
His dad worked a minimum wage job seven days a week delivering car parts and hospital samples around Denver, and Tim waited tables at Javier’s Diner in high school to save enough money to become the first person in his birth family to attend a four-year university. Now, Tim spends over 60% of his teacher salary on rent to live in the neighborhood he grew up in.
Teaching & Community
However, Tim’s perspectives are not solely informed by hardships; he has also experienced firsthand possibility, solidarity, love, and power in our community. As a teacher at North High School, his students created a book now permanently held in the Denver Public Library. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and proud CEA member, he has fought alongside union teachers across the district and the state.
As a community member, he has witnessed the power of the people, particularly youth, coming together to demand justice and bold solutions from our elected officials. He has marched alongside DACA students at universities and followed the lead of high school students in the wake of gun violence to advocate for common-sense gun violence prevention legislation at the Capitol.
Tim has felt and known the revolutionary love of his community—our community—from the time he went to the La Raza Youth Leadership Conference during his freshman year of high school and from elders, students, community members, parents, friends, allies, and family at La Raza Park just over a year ago.
Political Experience
Tim will work to ensure that we live up to our values and our platform in the Democratic Party. He interned for U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (NY) in Washington D.C. as their office sought to remove Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2020. Tim has testified on pro-labor, education, and tenants’ rights bills at the Capitol.
He has knocked doors for Democratic candidates across Colorado to build our democratic power statewide. Tim also served as the HD4A Captain on the HD4 Leadership Team, where he helped build an HD4A team of POs that holds the torch as the most fully represented sub-district in the entire Democratic Party of Denver.
As the current State Representative for House District 4, Tim is a statewide leader in the Democratic Party. He runs policies alongside leaders in the House Democratic Caucus, including the Majority Leader, and the Colorado Democratic Latino Caucus. His progressive legislation includes:
