As Director of Educational Projects and Initiatives, Dave is an advocate for our content across the educational community, supporting the educational mission of Houston’s PBS and NPR stations. Dave establishes engagement opportunities with schools, districts, and universities and develops creative strategies for sharing supplemental educational content that is produced for all PBS and NPR programming. He also collaborates with HPM content producers and news reporters with an eye towards supporting their projects from an educational perspective.
Prior to his work with Houston Public Media, Dave has worked in both education as a teacher, administrator, and adjunct professor in digital cinema as well as a video producer in the US as well as the Middle East. Dave is completing his doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Houston. Dave has won campus teacher of the year, district educator of the month, and adjunct excellence award. His students have won awards at the South by Southwest Film Festival, Lone Star Emmy student awards, and UIL state film festival in Texas. Dave is passionate about making the world of education better for teachers and administrators by reaching students with engaging media content.