David founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one – and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News and other newspapers, breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance. Harvard Business Review and Amazon.com named "Breaking Windows," his book on Microsoft, one of the 'best business books of the year.' As a foreign correspondent, David reported from Asia and Latin America. His articles have appeared in Wired, Mother Jones, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Out, Stanford Social Innovation Review and other publications. As vice president of Encore.org, he helped establish encore careers as a new stage of work centered on social purpose. A 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, David has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He lives in Berkeley, Calif., with his husband and their son.