Dave joined the Farm & Wilderness Board in 2021 and serves on its Conservation and Finance Committees. He was a camper at Timberlake and Tamarack Farm and then for more than 20 years a counselor and director at Timberlake. He served on the board of the Ninevah Foundation and its predecessor the Wilderness Corporation. Dave did budget work for the New York State Ways and Means Committee and provided public financial management assistance to governments in Moldova, the Republic of Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, and South Sudan.