Podcast appearances and mentions of david risley

The Citizens Club of Springfield met in summer 2024 to hear from SING: Shifting Into New Gear, a nonprofit charitable organization based in Springfield, Illinois, providing mentoring and resource navigation services to formerly incarcerated citizens returning to community and family life. SING's founder/CEO and formerly incarcerated individual, Lynard Joiner was joined by David Risley, retired Federal Prosecutor along with Becky Gabany, capacity-building consultant as the moderator. Joiner discusses his experience with incarceration, the creation of SING, and the unlikely partnership and collaboration between Risley and himself. To learn more about SING click here.

Lenore AndersonThis week's guest is Lenore Anderson. Lenore is Co-founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice, one of the largest reform advocacy organizations in the US, that combines smart policy reform with grassroots organizing to replace reliance on incarceration with more effective public safety solutions. With deep domain experience in law, policy, and justice reform, Lenore has recently published In Their Names - a book that not only provides historical insight into and an indictment of how the victims' rights movement warped the American justice system but created a cycle of trauma. However, Lenore also provides a roadmap to breaking this cycle of trauma and a future vision for justice, healing, and creating safer communities and society. Thanks to David Risley for the connectionWhat We Discuss 00:00 Intro02:05 Who is Lenore as a human?05:00 What made Lenore who she is?07:20 Her teenage years of troublemaking and second chances.13:00 Her rejection of societal conventions.15:00 Her purpose and commitment to creating a more just world.17:25 Dealing with fragility, doubt, and loss.21:10 Her gifts and superpowers.22:40 What she is complimented for. 23:40 Lenore describes how the Alliance for Safety and Justice operates.27:40 The historical context of the tough-on-crime movement.31:00 The negative externalities of mass incarceration.32:00 The impact on victims.35:24 The three reasons why tough justice hurt victims.38:10 The political myth of victimization and cycle of violence.38:40 Why the toxic culture of prisons reinforces trauma?40:00 The Hierarchy of Harm and examples in New Orleans.45:20 The bias against victims and the long-term damage. 48:23 The negative impact war on drugs and surveillance policing. 51:20 Reimagining community-based public safety.54:40 The importance of policy and partnering with communities. 56:30 What victims really want.59:00 Alternative systems. 1:01:30 A new approach to public safety. 1:07:00 Coalitions and partnerships to drive change. 1:13:00 The commonality between Lenore's and David Risley's work Social Links LinkedinTwitterWikipediaLinks in the showIn Their Names Alliance for Safety and Justice Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice Time DoneThe Guardian Article about LenoreNational Coalition for Shared Safety Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TL:DR - If you're short on time and want to hear some of the insights, ideas, and practical solutions to the current US Criminal Justice System then here's 7 minutes of key soundbites, from criminal justice expert, thought leader and advocate, David E Risley. If you do have the time on a run, cycle, or drive, check out the full episode.David E Risley is a storyteller and domain expert. He is the host of Justice Voices, the podcast that delivers eye-opening stories about criminal justice, healing, and building safer communities. For 32 years, yes, 32 years David was also a federal prosecutor for the Central District of Illinois, where he led counter-terrorism prosecutions, and was the lead attorney on multi-jurisdictional drug distribution conspiracies for the organized-crime, drug enforcement task force. Safe to say he knows a bit or two. We discuss a lot about the need for reform and redesign in the criminal justice system. It's meaty. Enjoy. Listen now on your fav Pod PlayerDavid also served as an attorney advisor for the Iraqi High Tribunal, where he helped investigate crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes committed by Saddam Hussein and high-ranking members of his former regime. David also provided bilateral mutual legal assistance and diplomatic liaison, as well as capacity-building programs for the Egyptian legal and judicial system.From criminal justice policy reform, anti-violence strategy, investigating and prosecuting complex multi-jurisdictional crime and criminal organizations, anti-terrorism and national security law to international criminal justice, international humanitarian law, and Egyptian law, David's expertise is vast.With Justice Voices, David has now got a vision and mission to build a strategic action platform to redesign the US criminal justice system. a pretty seismic task indeed to redirect resources to more cost-effective solutions and reform the delivery of justice for all. Wow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David E Risley is the host of the Justice Voices podcast and the Justice Visions Project. David has a vision and mission to build a strategic action platform to redesign the US criminal justice system. a pretty seismic task indeed to redirect resources to more cost-effective solutions and reform the delivery of justice for all. What we discussDavid discusses who he is and what shaped him (5.00 - 11.00)We discuss faith and spiritual connections in people (11.00 - 14.00) Discusses spiritual harmony and harmony in Justice (14.30-16.00)David discusses other influences in shaping him (16.00- 20.00)His early decision to focus on solving human problems through law (21.00 - 23.00) His ability to see both sides of an argument (24.30- 26.30)Being comfortable in ambiguity (27.30 - 29.00)Why he was drawn to criminal justice (30.30 - 32.00)The responsibility of a prosecutor (32.00- 35.00)His desire to address the issues in the Criminal Justice System and launch Justice Voices podcast (35.30 - 38.00)The problem with the current punishment paradigm and restorative justice (39. 00 - 43.20)Resolving the addiction to the punishment paradigm and the cost to society (45.00 -53.00) Cost of Recidivism (53.00 - 54.30)David and I discuss alternatives to the current system, aligning incentives and desired outcomes, and the role of CBT (56.00 - 1.01.45)Injecting innovation to the current system (1.02.00 - 1.06.15)Davids Justice Visions strategy to reform the system through design thinking ( 1.08.00 - 1.01.00)Davids explains the innovative work being done in Bronzville, Chicago, on addressing violent-ization and trauma-informed services (1.11.30 -1.15.00)Problem-solving in schools and unlocking human talent(1.17.00 - 1.24.30)David describes the work of Readi Chicago in using data to create early interventions (1.27.30 - 1.30.00)Social Links David on LinkedinJustice Voices God Unites YoutubeLinks Justice Voices.org Readi ChicagoNorman RockwellChurch Of Jesus Christ and Later Day Saints SPAC - Sentencing Policy Advisory CouncilThe Innovators DilemmaYoung Chances Foundation Tyrique Glasgow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Justice Voices, you will hear from guest Sam Dent, who served a mandatory minimum 20 years in prison in a case host David Risley prosecuted around the same time as the case he prosecuted against co-host, Lynard Joiner. Mr. Dent was one of Mr. Joiner’s early clients in his Shifting Into New Gear (SING) program for helping people successfully reenter community and family life after release from prison. Mr. Dent tells us what a difference it made after returning to the community to have the support he received from Mr. Joiner and his SING program, including assistance finding employment. Mr. Dent shares his backstory of how he ended up going to prison and tells us about his experience in prison. Most importantly and most interestingly, he shares the story of who he is today, of what he has made of himself after prison. You will also learn a lot from the exchange about criminal justice policy issues. As Mr. Risley told Mr. Dent and Mr. Joiner during that discussion, they are subject matter experts speaking from lived experience giving them a perspective of great value to those who have never seen our justice system from the inside out, rather than the outside in.

The root cause of violentization is trauma from chronic exposure to violence, usually beginning in childhood or adolescence. Victims of violence become victimizers. Why? Because at some point the victim of chronic violence makes the decision that this is a violent, dog-eat-dog world and that to avoid being a victim of violence one must become more violent and dangerous than potential abusers or attackers – to essentially fight fire with fire. In part 1 of this episode, we explored the five-stage adaptive process of violentization described by criminologist researcher Lonnie Athens. In this part 2 we turn to the all-important question of prevention and interventions to interrupt and even reverse the violentization process at both the individual and community levels. A disease model is used for practical perspective. To reduce serious criminal violence, reduce and effectively treat violent trauma. Host David Risley maintains the solutions to serious criminal violence fall into four buckets: trauma, jobs, incentives, and educating the public. At the highest and most difficult end of the violentization scale, ultraviolent and predatory violent people are so dangerous, resistant to de-violentization, and malignant in their effect on communities that there is rarely, if ever, a practical intervention alternative to long-term incapacitation through incarceration. But even then, treatment of violentization is sometimes possible. At the lower end of the violentization scale, interventions include: Multi-systemic therapy (MST), an example of which is the Greater Bronzeville Community Action Plan being implemented in Chicago's historic Bronzeville neighborhood through a partnership between the University of Chicago's Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention and Bright Star Community Outreach, a faith-based community service organization delivering trauma counseling and other services to individuals, households, and even local police officers. Schools, often best positioned to observe the early symptoms of violentization such as defiance and aggression, and sometimes also to deliver trauma-informed therapy and other support services, especially when the trauma arises from domestic violence or other abuse. Parenting education, especially for children raising children. Trauma-informed counseling, an example of which is the TURN Center, a program constituting an element of the Greater Bronzeville Community Action Plan. A notable feature of the TURN Center program is it is largely modeled after the program and services delivered by the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terrorism and War (NATAL), representatives of which have trained TURN Center personnel. Antiviolence group resocialization, which Lonnie Athens recommends for adolescents and adults in the middle stages of violentization, perhaps conducted in settings such as a youth hostel, ideally led by former violent offenders hired due to their credibility with the target audience and trained to conduct such programs. Restorative justice programs and community and problem-solving policing are also important, but deserve fuller discussion in their own episodes. In the meantime, more on those topics is found on the antiviolence strategy paper published on David Risley's personal website at https://david-risley.com. Finally, what may be the knottiest problem of them all: the resource riddle.

Unless we understand the psychological impact of chronic abuse on victims, we can fail them. Even worse, we can misjudge them, including misjudge them in court. That's why this part 2 of Donna Lomelino's story is so important and instructive.  This second part of this episode has five sections, each of which is important and packed with insights.  Please stick with us and hear Donna out, even if that means listening to her story and hearing her voice one segment at a time.  The first 12 minutes includes some highlight excerpts from the full interview, followed by comments by host David Risley about understanding the psychological impact of chronic abuse on victims, including the development of a strong protective attachment by victims to their abusers as a variation of the so-called Stockholm syndrome, an attachment Donna later describes as an addiction. In the first segment of the full conversation (12:09), we pick up where we left off in part 1 and hear more of Donna's experience being in the psychological prison of abuse as she struggles to describe what she was thinking and experiencing when she received the news that her abusive fiancé had beaten her 8-year-old son to death while she was away living and working in another state. Even today she struggles to understand and explain why back then she felt near panic to avoid losing her fiancé even though he had just killed her son, a reaction that was among the most damning evidence of a complicit mental state when she was tried and convicted as an accomplice to her son's murder. Donna next (30:35) shares her experience while being in physical prisons of concrete and steel, including her surprising reflection that, for her, despite its traumas prison was a sanctuary, a place where for the first time in her life she felt safe. She describes how that freed her to, over time, break free from her psychological imprisonment.   She then (58:07) relates her experience reentering community life after release from prison, including struggling to find employment as a convicted felon, followed by a conversation about what Donna is doing and what she has become now. Next (01:20:48), Donna shares her insightful, first-hand observations about needed policy and practice changes regarding victims of abuse. During this segment, Donna and co-host Lynard Joiner reflect on parallels between their prison and reentry experiences and Donna passionately shares her views about the need to rescue children from abusive households much sooner and more aggressively than is typically the case. The episode ends (01:37:20) with Donna's touching and deeply reflective message from the Donna of today to the Donna of her childhood and youth. We again thank the Illinois Public Health Association for its support for this program.

This episode of Justice Voices will be emotionally intense.  Facing realities involved in criminal justice policy sometimes is, including facing the reality of what a lifetime of abuse and exploitation can do to people. Some prisons are physical, made of concrete and steel. Other prisons are psychological. People in physical prisons know that they are imprisoned. People in psychological prisons, however, including women and children trapped in abusive domestic relationships, may not only deny their imprisonment to themselves and others, but even fight off efforts by family, friends, police, and prosecutors to rescue them from a dangerous, sometimes even deadly situation. It's one thing to observe the psychological imprisonment of victims of abuse from the outside. It's quite another to have the opportunity to see it from the inside, through the eyes of a victim of a lifetime of abuse. Today's episode of Justice Voices will give you that inside opportunity.  In this part 1 of a two-part episode, you'll meet Donna Lomelino, of Springfield, Illinois, who works with a faith-based organization helping homeless women and children who are victims of abuse. Ms. Lomelino is a wonderful, compassionate woman with a strong sense of mission.  Talking to her today you'd likely never suspect that she, herself, was a victim of a lifetime of abuse from her childhood until the time as a young adult when she was sent to prison for a horrific crime committed by an abusive boyfriend, a crime committed while she was absent and had been absent for a couple of weeks while working out of state, a crime that ripped her heart out, but for which she was nevertheless held criminally accountable under Illinois law as interpreted and applied by a prosecutor and judges. How could that be you may ask? Indeed. Good question. Part 2 of this episode will cover Donna's experience in prison, including how she was one of many women incarcerated there who are victims of abuse, some of whom were also being punished for crimes committed by their abusers.  Most importantly, part 2 will cover who Donna Lomelino became, who she is today, and what made all the difference. In this and hopefully many future episodes, host David Risley is joined co-host Lynard Joiner, one of Mr. Risley's former defendants, whose own story is told in episodes 1 and 2 of this program. * Justice Voices website: https://justicevoices.org* SING website: https://ShiftingIntoNewGear.org

In this update to Episode 1, host David Risley, a former career federal prosecutor, has a conversation with one of his former defendants, Lynard Joiner, founder and CEO of Shifting Into New Gear (SING). Mr. Joiner discusses what he sees as the five key factors involved in successful community reentry by returning citizens after prison: MindsetEmploymentHousingSobrietyResource support. He points out that effective reentry programs are a win-win solution to the problem of recidivism (return to prison for new offenses). Mr. Risley discusses the need for a shift in our criminal justice thinking from a punishment paradigm to a problem-solving paradigm. * Justice Voices website: https://justicevoices.org * SING website: https://ShiftingIntoNewGear.org

“Going to prison saved my life.” That is what guest, Lynard Joiner, said during this conversation with host, David Risley. It is also the subtitle of an autobiographical book written by Lynard Joiner, titled, LJ's Cocoon. Mr. Joiner and Mr. Risley first met on opposite sides of a federal courtroom, on opposite sides of the law. Mr. Joiner was a defendant. Mr. Risley was the prosecutor. Mr. Joiner was convicted and served 17 years in prison. Now, he is founder and CEO of a reentry program named Shifting Into New Gear (SING) providing mentoring and resource navigation services to people returning to the Springfield, Illinois, area after release from prison. He has provided services to hundreds of returning citizens, including many who are former defendants in cases prosecuted by Mr. Risley. Today, Mr. Risley and Mr. Joiner are friends and colleagues. In this episode, recorded originally in 2019, Mr. Joiner describes what led him to end up in prison; his prison experience; the transformation while in prison that he describes as coming out of a cocoon; his experience after release, including being taught how to use a cell phone by a 4 year-old child; the mission of SING; and SING’s remarkable success in enabling returning citizens transition successfully to community and family life after release from prison. When Mr. Risley shared the earlier YouTube video version of this episode with a friend who is a retired Illinois State Police Major, the friend called him the next day and said he had already watched it twice, describing it as “impactful,” something that should be watched by everyone, including police trainees. Mr. Risley is a former career federal prosecutor and former Director of Public Safety Policy in the Illinois Governor’s Office. He founded Justice Voices after leaving the Governor’s office, convinced that the best way to change public policy regarding criminal justice issues is to change public opinion by sharing the stories of people with lived experience with crime and the criminal justice system. Some future episodes will feature conversations with other people who served prison time in cases prosecuted by Mr. Risley. Others will feature conversations with people with subject matter expertise in criminal justice issues, including restorative justice. Episode 2 will feature an more recent 2021 conversation with Mr. Joiner in which he shares what he sees as the five keys of successful reentry to community life after release from prison. Stay tuned for that and many more “stories that need to be told, voices that need to be heard.” * SING website: https://ShiftingIntoNewGear.org* Justice Voices website: https://justicevoices.org

That is the first of three doses of criminal justice reality described in this introductory episode by Justice Voices founder and host, David Risley, former career federal prosecutor and former Director of Public Safety Policy in the Illinois Governor’s office.Reality dose #2: Prisons do only one thing well — incapacitation of dangerous criminals. But, in FY 2018 half the Illinois prison population (for example) consisted of people in Department of Corrections custody for only 8 months or less, at a true cost of almost $70,000 per inmate per year. The huge cost of imprisoning low-level, non-dangerous offenders is taxpayer money that would be far better spent on more effective local solutions to local crime using local resources, supported when necessary by state funding. Reality dose #3: In Illinois, 43% of people released from prison return to prison within 3 years (lower than the national average) at a true cost of over $150,000 for each such event of recidivism. Recycling people back to prison is far more expensive than the cost of investing in proven in-prison programs and local support systems to enable returning citizens to successfully reenter the community after release from prison without returning to criminal activity.We need to shift from a punishment paradigm of criminal justice to a problem-solving paradigm.When Mr. Risley left the Illinois Governor’s Office as Director of Public Safety Policy, he had reached the conclusion that the best way to change public policy regarding criminal justice system reform is to change public opinion, and the best way to change public opinion is by sharing the stories of people with real-life experience with crime and the criminal justice system.Real-life stories have the power to illuminate reality far better than facts and figures – and to change hearts, as well as minds.That's what Justice Voices is all about – to share stories that need to be told, voices that need to be heard regarding crime, criminal justice, and related issues.Justice Voices website:  https://justicevoices.orgDavid Risley’s background: https://david-risley.comFinal Report of the Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform (Parts I & II) December 2016:  http://www.icjia.org/cjreform2015/index.htmlIllinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council:  https://spac.illinois.gov/ David E. RisleyDavid E. Risley–Making democracy workDavid E. Risley professional website. Expert in Egyptian judiciary, Egypt legal system, Egypt law, Iraqi High Tribunal, Marsh Arabs of Iraq, rule of law, judicial training, prosecutor training, national security law, international humanitarian law, and developing core institutions of democracy. Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing ReformWelcome to the Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Senten

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Have you ever felt compelled to try something that would take you out of your normal, day-to-day reality and put you into a reality you couldn’t imagine? That’s what happened to David Risley after he responded to an email with a subject line he didn’t initially believe: Detail to Baghdad. “Yeah, right,” he thought. David’s response to that email sent him to Baghdad, Iraq, and introduced him to an ancient culture he would never leave behind.   

In the previous episode of Extra Ordinary, we met David Risley, an ex-federal prosecutor who worked as an attorney-advisor for the Iraqi High Tribunal. When David finished that assignment, he was asked to help with terrorism investigations. Being located in Central Illinois, David wasn’t convinced the assignment would amount to much, but he ended up prosecuting one of the most significant terrorism cases in the United States.

This week on The RV Entrepreneur podcast I sat down with David Risley from BlogMarketingAcademy.com and RVFamilyTravel.com to talk about his wealth of knowledge as it pertains to building a profitable blog. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

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Welcome to “The Dealer Playbook” session number 53 and we are so excited that you are here. In our latest offering we are sitting down with “your favorite bloggers, favorite blogger”, a professional blogger that has been making it happen in the blog game since well before they even called it blogging in fact… Founder and creator of the “Blog Marketing Academy” and also one of Team DPB's favorite podcasts “Coffee Break Blogging”…Mr. David Risley!!David is one of the most sought after experts when it comes to blogging for business and in this session of The Dealer Playbook he dives into “How To Blog The Right Way To Grow Your Business”.In the auto industry especially we hear so many different strategies and tips from so called “experts” it makes it easy for todays car sales professionals and or auto dealers to be well… Unsure when it comes to blogging. If you want to learn more about this sessions guest David Risley check his bio:  http://www.blogmarketingacademy.com/about-david-risley/ Here is a quick preview of what you will learn more about in this session: - How a committed blogging strategy can sell you more cars. - How you can generate an insane amount of leads in your marketplace with blogging. - How to engage with and handle the leads you generate from blogging. You will get all that and so much more in this action packed session of The Dealer Playbook Podcast. Learn More About Blogging From David RisleyClick here for Blog Marketing AcademyClick For Coffee Break Blogging PodcastYou Know The Drill, Now It's Your TurnThe whole team at DPB can not thank you enough for all the support and love you have been giving us.Whether you loved it, hated it, want more of it, or want something different , we want to hear your voice.Sound off below with your thoughts, opinions, suggestions, questions, etc. and lets keep this conversation going.See you next time ;)Connect With Team DPBConnect with The Dealer Playbook on Twitter here.Check out Michael Cirillo's blog here.Check out Robert Wiesman's blog here.Connect with Michael Cirillo on Twitter here.Connect with Robert Wiesman on Twitter here.  

Welcome to “The Dealer Playbook” session number 53 and we are so excited that you are here.  In our latest offering we are sitting down with “your favorite bloggers, favorite blogger”, a professional blogger that has been making it happen in the blog game since well before they even called it blogging in fact…  Founder and creator of the “Blog Marketing Academy” and also one of Team DPB's favorite podcasts “Coffee Break Blogging”… Mr. David Risley!! David is one of the most sought after experts when it comes to blogging for business and in this session of The Dealer Playbook he dives into “How To Blog The Right Way To Grow Your Business”. In the auto industry especially we hear so many different strategies and tips from so called “experts” it makes it easy for todays car sales professionals and or auto dealers to be well… Unsure when it comes to blogging.  If you want to learn more about this sessions guest David Risley check his bio:  http://www.blogmarketingacademy.com/about-david-risley/  Here is a quick preview of what you will learn more about in this session:  - How a committed blogging strategy can sell you more cars.  - How you can generate an insane amount of leads in your marketplace with blogging.  - How to engage with and handle the leads you generate from blogging.  You will get all that and so much more in this action packed session of The Dealer Playbook Podcast.  Learn More About Blogging From David Risley Click here for Blog Marketing Academy Click For Coffee Break Blogging Podcast You Know The Drill, Now It's Your Turn The whole team at DPB can not thank you enough for all the support and love you have been giving us. Whether you loved it, hated it, want more of it, or want something different , we want to hear your voice. Sound off below with your thoughts, opinions, suggestions, questions, etc. and lets keep this conversation going. See you next time ;) Connect With Team DPB Connect with The Dealer Playbook on Twitter here. Check out Michael Cirillo's blog here. Check out Robert Wiesman's blog here. Connect with Michael Cirillo on Twitter here. Connect with Robert Wiesman on Twitter here.    

Dave lives in Tampa Bay, Florida.  He makes his living as a content marketing strategist and online publisher. Dave has been in this business for 14 years.  He is a father, husband, entrepreneur, blogger, author, speaker, and consultant.  In that order.

Hello, there! David Risley here! Welcome to another episode of Coffee Break Blogging! ;-) With episode 33 of Coffee Break Blogging, we're still working on setting up the framework for moving forward on the 7 Stages of Building an Online Business. In this one, I talk about how to do all that we're going to talk about... but while holding down a full-time job. Specifically, I'm going to cover 7 specific strategies in order to build leverage. If you have a full-time job, but want to build up your blog-based business on the side, then give this episode a listen. So in this episode let's talk about my 7 Tips For Growing Your Blog While Having A Full-time Job.

Hello there! David Risley here; from blogmarketingacademy.com with Episode 30 of The Blog Program. It's been a little while since you and I have spoken unless you are over at blogmarketingacademy.com and seeing what I have been doing there. I haven't actually done a podcast episode for quite a time and actually, the point of this particular episode is to tell you exactly what's been going on there and let you know what is going to be happening moving forward. :-) So first of all, I want to start out with what my big mistake had been. It's one of those things to where none of us are fool proof. And anybody who goes out there and puts on a facade that everything that they've ever done was the best decision they have ever made, is bull crapping you. And I think we all kind of know this.

We're blasting into 2014 with one of the best conversations yet. We met with gallery owner David Risley and asked the question: are Danes lazy? The answer affects all of us in the art world. We also manage to hear about his past in the Midlands, about going to art school and about sliding into curating shows more or less by accident. Go see the current show at his gallery, it's a clear bump up in thoughtfulness and quality over the usual fare. Up until Feb 2nd, 2014

We're blasting into 2014 with one of the best conversations yet. We met with gallery owner David Risley and asked the question: are Danes lazy? The answer affects all of us in the art world. We also manage to hear about his past in the Midlands, about going to art school and about sliding into curating shows more or less by accident. Go see the current show at his gallery, it's a clear bump up in thoughtfulness and quality over the usual fare. Up until Feb 2nd, 2014

Dave lives in Tampa Bay, Florida.  He makes his living as a content marketing strategist and online publisher. Dave has been in this business for 14 years.  He is a father, husband, entrepreneur, blogger, author, speaker, and consultant.  In that order.