Title
Chief Empowerment Officer / Co-Founder
Company
Eye to Eye
Bio
Author of Thinking Differently:
Reframing Learning for a New Generation (HarperCollins, Fall 2014) Diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD at a young age, David Flink struggled through much of his pre-college education feeling hopeless and left out of education as a whole.

Although his parents and teachers frequently told him he would be able to go to college, David would have found that message more believable if it had come from a person with a learning disability (LD) who had finished college. With that in mind, David co-founded Eye to Eye in 1998, while he was a student at Brown University. In addition to his ongoing work as CEO of Eye to Eye, from 2002 to 2004 David was an admissions officer at Brown University, serving as disabilities liaison for all Brown applicants with disabilities.

He has spoken at colleges and universities across the country, and provided keynote addresses at national and international conferences including the Kennedy Center Intersections Conference, the International Dyslexia Association, and the Education Revolution Conference held in San Francisco’s AT&T Park. In 2010, he was awarded a Prime Mover’s Fellowship sponsored by the Hunt Alternative’s Fund, which supports emerging and established social movement leaders who are developing innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at the local, national, and global levels.

David holds a master’s degree in disability studies in education from Columbia University and bachelor’s degrees with honors in education and psychology from Brown University.