National Advisory Board

David King is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, stewardship leader, and cultural advocate with extensive management experience and artistic direction. His purpose is rooted in connecting people with accessible resources for personal growth, creative expression, and civic engagement. He works with local public and private sector leaders, policymakers, and community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide career readiness training, hands-on learning, and mentorship for youth and adults, as well as professional development and networking opportunities for educators and arts workers. 

He is a born and raised New Yorker committed to the city’s well-being, advocating for audaciousness, political will, and imagination in the cultural sector. He invests in a better quality of life for fellow residents by integrating principles of artistic practice into public education, leadership development, and social infrastructure frameworks. With a career in the performing arts, event production, and holistic youth development, he relies on methods of inquiry, collaboration, critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving to identify performance gaps, bring strategic visions to life, create indelible bonds, and lead to successful program outcomes.

David is the Director of Education at The Apollo and former Program Director of School and Community Partnerships at Community-Word Project (CWP). He is the Board Vice Chair at the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable (NYCAIER) and a National Advisory Board member with Imagining America. He participates in a working group with Culture@3, which is a space for leaders of NYC’s cultural institutions to connect and share resources and support. He co-founded The Seven Collective—a former theater company turned artist collective composed of artists of Caribbean descent committed to collaborative art rooted in their sense of community. He is a proud CUNY graduate, having earned a B.A. in Theatre from The City College of New York.