David is a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is focusing on clean energy policy and finance and is interested in how emerging digital technologies can enable a more flexible, decarbonized electricity grid.

Prior to Yale, he worked in economic consulting at Analysis Group and then at the University of Washington as a research scientist. At the University of Washington, he studied and published research on racial and socioeconomic disparities in air pollution exposure in the United States.

At CBEY, David is a writer for the Clean Energy Finance Forum. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics with a minor in Geography from Middlebury College. He is originally from Yakima, WA.