He received his master’s degree in journalism education in 2014. He received his undergraduate degree in photojournalism from Kent State in 2009, then attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. As an undergraduate, he was named by The Ohio News Photographers Association as Student Photographer of the Year, in 2006 and 2007. David has interned as a photographer at The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) and the The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH).