Adam Frisch

Candidate for CO-03

Adam Frisch is a Western Slope business owner, family man, former city council member, and candidate for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. He understands rural Colorado communities.

Adam spent the first five years of his life on Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana where his father started his 50- year career as a doctor, working for the Dept. of Indian Health Services within the US Public Health Service. He then went on to be an obstetrician-gynecologist, including training the next generation of healthcare providers at Planned Parenthood.

Adam graduated from the University of Colorado, majoring in economics. Following college, he waited tables in New York City before beginning a career in international finance, with a focus on global economies and interest rates that brought him to 50 countries across the globe.

He was in the World Trade Center during the terrorist bombing in 1993, and was working in midtown Manhattan during the 9/11 attacks. Adam understands from tragic firsthand experience what can happen when extremism takes over.

After attending too many funerals in the wake of 9/11, he moved to Colorado’s Western Slope, where he met his wife Katy, the President of her family’s manufacturing business and a former member of the local school board. Together they have two teenage children, and a dog, Padme.

Adam’s public service began when he chaired Pitkin County’s Financial Advisory Board from 2005 to 2011. Then, from 2011 to 2019, he served on his local City Council, where he focused on affordable housing and supporting the small business community, and was known as a problem solver, a straight shooter, and a consensus builder. During COVID, Adam became a part-time substitute teacher in the public school system to help local children continue their education in the classroom and to support school staff.