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David Abel, Managing Director
David Abel is the Managing Director of NSBN. David has served as
chairman of State Assembly Speaker Hertzberg's Blue Ribbon Commission
to Consider Reforms of California's Initiative Process; on Speaker's
Hertzberg's Commission on Regionalism; chaired former Assembly Speaker
Villaraigosa's Commission on State/Local Government Finance Reform;
and was a member of the Independent Review Panel - Finance Options -of
the Bay Delta Authority. He is also an original investor and corporate
board member of SuperShuttle International, Inc. He presently serves,
in addition to his work with TPL, on a number of civic and community
boards of directors, including: the California Center for Regional
Leadership, L.A. County Economic Development Corporation, Bedrosian
Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise at USC, USC's Master in
Public Policy Board of Councilors, Urban Education Partnership, Boyle
Heights Learning Collaborative, New Village Charter School, St.
Anne's, and Grand Performances. He is presently a visiting lecturer
on regionalism at UCSD. He has been both a Fellow and the Director of
the Coro Foundation's Fellows Program, as well as a fellow of the
Robert Kennedy Memorial and the Institute for Educational Leadership.
In addition to his law (Boston University) and doctoral work in
educational administration (Harvard University), his collegiate
background includes an undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna
College, study at the London School of Economics, and a Master's in
Urban Studies degree from Occidental College. David can be reached via
email at david@nsbn.org.
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