Henry R. Muñoz III is an American activist, business leader, designer & philanthropist. He has launched national movements including Momento Latino, TheDream.US and Latino Victory to support the Latino community through awareness, college funding and electoral support.
Muñoz bought the premier comedy studio Funny or Die (FOD) in May 2021 with hopes to advance diverse story telling in Hollywood in a Funny Original and Diverse (FOD) manner.
Muñoz 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 inclusive approach to architecture, urban planning, and design that acknowledges the imprint of the Latino community upon the built environment of the United States.
Muñoz helped found the effort to create a Latino Museum on the Mall in Washington D.C., as chairman of the Commission to study the Creation of the National Museum of the American Latino. After legislation passed in 2021 for the creation of the Smithsonian American Latino Museum, Muñoz was elected as Founding Chairman of the Board.
Muñoz was appointed as Finance Chair of The Democratic National Committee by President Barack Obama in January 2013. 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.
Henry and his husband Kyle Ferrari-Muñoz, tireless advocates for marriage equality and equality for the LGBTQIA + community, were married by President Joe Biden and currently live in New York and Los Angeles.
