David is president of the Pisces Foundation and its founding staff member. He leads our efforts to support innovators working to ensure a clean and healthy environment. As the Foundation’s first staff member in 2012, David worked with the Foundation’s trustees to frame our goals, programs, principles, and operations, open our offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and launch grantmaking to advance the Foundation’s vision of people and nature thriving together. David previously directed the national water program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the nation’s largest environmental advocacy organizations. Under his leadership, the water program became one of NRDC’s natio