David attended Wheaton College in Illinois as an undergraduate, where he studied under Paul Robinson and became friends with Cullen Rodgers-Gates when Paul and Cullen worked for the college’s Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) program. Before joining the Board, David traveled to UCBC in 2013 with several U.S. attorneys including Ben Chappell and John Gemmill to participate in an international conference for lawyers hosted by UCBC. For six months during college, David lived less than 200 miles from UCBC across the border in Uganda, consulting for small rural businesses and staying with a local family as part of the HNGR program. David is excited to join Congo Initiative as a way to continue supporting development and educational opportunities in the region.