President & CEO
Dave is the visionary behind the original TerraCorps program model. For more than a decade, he provided leadership for Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, first as Conservation Director, then as Deputy Director. Beginning in 2017, Dave orchestrated the spin-off of the TerraCorps program and became the new nonprofit’s first President and CEO.
Through his 25-year career in land conservation, Dave has learned that all people have meaningful personal connections to the land, and he has become a strong advocate for collaborating across the rural to urban landscape gradient. Dave is a conservation biologist, educator, and entrepreneur with an M.S. from Antioch University New England, M.Ed. from UMass-Boston, and B.S. from Johnson and Wales University. Prior to his tenure with Mount Grace, he helped land trusts and municipal commissions prioritize conservation land acquisitions as managing partner of a small consulting practice. He also served at Franklin Pierce University as an adjunct professor of natural sciences.
