David joins the EDCP community to pursue a PhD in Curriculum Studies with a passion to explore how (young) people develop what Aldo Leopold coined as a “Land Ethic.” He very much wants to see the United States incorporating a Land Ethic into the standard public education curricula. With years of traveling, teaching, and living in countries around the Pacific Ring of Fire, Dave is excited to look at this idea through a cross-cultural lens. He serves as the director of an after-school program that promotes Mexican cultural enrichment and scholastic academic support. When not reading, writing, or working with students, he enjoys time homesteading and gardening with his wonderful wife, Michelle, in Bellingham, Washington.