David has been a part of the TeamMates Central Office Staff since December of 2021. His job is to form and sustain relationships between TeamMates and its community partners, recruit new Mentors for the organization, and consult Chapters on recruitment strategy and implementation. He is also responsible for long-term graphic design projects for organizational and Chapter communications.

Prior to his tenure at TeamMates, David worked as a high school Color Guard Director for eight years, ending his career at Bellevue West HS after five of those years. While teaching, he focused on social-emotional intelligence and growth within his student population. He has taught multiple groups across the country including in: Nebraska, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, North Carolina, and Illinois. Currently, he consults on programming design for a handful of groups and teaches color guard clinics on an as-needed basis.

David is incredibly passionate about equity and inclusion amongst all groups of people that he works with. He believes in the power of listening and curiosity, regularly asking people about themselves and their life story. If he had to pick a useless superpower it would be to change white milk to chocolate milk and the achievement he is most proud of is potty-training his Golden Retriever puppy, Goose, in just over one week.