Political & campaign work
Political fundraising, candidate preparation, and messaging are central interests. His campaign work spans fundraising, field operations, candidate messaging, and donor engagement.
Selected experienceDavid Cunningham is a serial entrepreneur, strategic consultant, and founder of DC Consulting Group LLC. He is also a first-year law student at Southern University Law Center. His work spans political fundraising, candidate messaging, business development, and television, with a growing focus on housing and independent-living opportunities for young adults transitioning out of foster care.
For David, that work is personal. He grew up in the foster care system and knows how much a person's future can depend on access to stability, guidance, and someone willing to see their potential. His own path has included mistakes, hard lessons, and the responsibility of deciding what to do differently. Those experiences have shaped his approach to entrepreneurship and his belief that people deserve a meaningful opportunity to build a different future.
Political fundraising is one of the parts of the work he enjoys most. David is drawn to the preparation and relationships behind a campaign: helping candidates explain why they are running, organize productive donor call time, make a clear ask, and follow through. Candidate training and messaging bring together his interests in people, communication, and the practical work required to turn an idea into support.
He founded DC Consulting Group to help people navigate that same distance between having a vision and knowing how to pursue it. Working across politics, communications, entertainment, and business, he brings an entrepreneurial perspective to developing ideas, building relationships, and preparing for the next stage of a project. Alongside his consulting work, he is the creator and executive producer of Power of Attorney: Atlanta, a DC Creative Media project exploring the people behind Atlanta’s personal injury industry. His entrepreneurial portfolio also includes David’s Deep Drip, a water-based lubricant brand, and ventures in development in housing and EV charging.
His interest in public life extends to published commentary. Writing for 2UrbanGirls under his own name and, for selected earlier work, The Statesman byline, David has addressed criminal justice, government accountability, political representation, housing, education, and entertainment. Those subjects reflect the questions that also shape his consulting and entrepreneurial work: who has access, whose voice is heard, and how institutions can better serve people.
David's commitment to criminal justice reform and second chances also informs the ventures he chooses to pursue. He is developing a housing and independent-living initiative for young adults 18 and older transitioning out of foster care, while exploring government funding and community partnerships. The aim is to help young people build stability and the practical skills needed for greater independence.
His legal education is part of that larger purpose: to better understand the institutions that shape people's lives and to bring that understanding to his work. Whether he is supporting a candidate, helping an entrepreneur develop a business, or building a venture of his own, David is motivated by the possibility of creating opportunities that people can actually use.