Dan is an experienced general counsel, business leader and advisor, tech entrepreneur, and climate activist. Dan provides counsel to organizations seeking to make a positive human impact doing advocacy work from main street to Congress and international advocacy from Beijing to the United Nations. He has managed risk for clients through the Paris terrorist attack to broadcast television productions reaching over 800 million people worldwide. Dan has served as a strategic advisor and general counsel for former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s nonprofit, The Climate Reality Project, since 2009. Dan serves on the Advisory Board for the Salazar Center for North American Conservation, founded by former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, and as a mentor for entrepreneurs with the Techstars-The Nature Conservancy Sustainability Accelerator. He has served in leadership roles in federal and state politics from Deputy Chief Counsel to the DNCC for the Democratic National Convention and counsel for state and federal candidates to managing logistics for national and international press for a U.S. Presidential campaign. David is an urban planner who is passionate about sustainability, community engagement, and cities. Much of his professional work has focused on developing platforms and processes to engage people and institutions in collaborative problem-solving and coordinated action. In Seattle, he is helping facilitate cross-departmental, cross-sectoral collaboration on integrated approaches to equitable and sustainable development, including public open space planning to support a rapidly densifying city, improving the quality of design outcomes in new development, and developing a people-centered vision for the future of Seattle’s center city. In Boulder, he helped guide a wide range of planning and sustainability efforts, from affordable housing and transit-oriented development to zero waste and energy system change. He also forged partnerships with peer cities on sustainability and climate initiatives, and worked with the University of Colorado and others to launch the Growing Up Boulder initiative to support youth engagement in planning. Prior to his work with City of Boulder, David was the UNESCO Chair for Growing Up in Cities at Cornell University, leading an international action research program focused on young people as community change agents, partnering with NGOs in New York and Nairobi and serving as advisor and trainer for initiatives in Canada, Jordan, Lebanon, the Netherlands and Russia. He is the author of Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation (Earthscan/UNESCO, 2001) as well as many articles and book chapters on the role of young people in environmental action. As a consultant, he has led participatory planning projects focused on land use, affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization in California, Oregon, New York and New Jersey, and from 1996 to 1997 led the planning team for the Capital City Master Plan for Doha, Qatar. In addition to teaching at Cornell, he has taught urban planning courses at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a graduate of Stanford (BA, 1986) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MCP, 1991).