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David McCullough III Highlight
If we are to do anything as students, it’s not to have answers…it’s to ask questions.
About David
- I moved from Hawaii to Massachusetts at eight years old.
- I took a cross-country road trip to visit the ballparks of America with my dad, and that sparked my deep love for this country.
- I was heartbroken after I lost my spot on the Yale University baseball team, but it prompted me to start exploring new paths that ultimately changed my life.
- I taught preschool in New Haven, Connecticut, and saw firsthand how inequality shows up in our education system.
- I won a fellowship at Yale and used it to road trip across the U.S., listening to students, teachers, and families about education and equity.
- My senior thesis on education and democracy grew into a 200-page exploration of how we listen—and don’t listen—to each other.
- After grad school, I turned my research into reality by launching the American Exchange Project out of my parents’ attic.
- Now, I lead a growing nonprofit that helps students step outside of their bubbles, connect across divides, and rediscover our shared humanity.