Founder and CEONourish^N
David leads the Nourishment Economies Coalition (Nourish^N): an international group of social entrepreneurs, community enterprisers, and scientists focused on nutrient-cycling strategies to stimulate economic, cultural, and biological vitality -- and building social and business enterprises around the many benefits that result. These approaches have become known loosely as "the circular economy of nutrients."
Operating at the overlap of health, food, farming, and environmental conservation, David founded Nourish^N after a decade of supporting and looking for systemic action-patterns with more than 200 social entrepreneurs at Ashoka and Skoll. He previously instigated and helped lead several environmental initiatives, including designing U.N. and U.S. Montreal Protocol approaches to eliminate ozone-depleting pollution among automobile mechanics in 18 developing countries; launching the world’s first live wilderness webcam in Costa Rican cloud forests in 2000, to draw global attention to cross-border issues in management of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor; and creating the early (2002) online social network Backyard Jungle for the U.S. Public Broadcasting System (PBS Kids!), deploying the internet itself to motivate children to leave their computers and explore outside.
David holds degrees in political science and public policy from Stanford University and Harvard University.