Biography

David is executive director at Liberty’s Kitchen, a social enterprise nonprofit providing the city’s youth a path to self-sufficiency through food service-based training and work-readiness programs. After leading a service trip to New Orleans in 2008, David found himself struck deeply by the weight of his experience and eager to do more. He relocated to New Orleans and has since immersed himself in the community, working to provide the city’s most vulnerable youth with a path to stability and success for themselves and their families. David is an emerging leader who has experience with vulnerable youth programming that addresses issues of equity, work readiness, wealth generation and individual and community health.