David Drinkwater

David Drinkwater has served as Assistant Professor and Associate Dean at the State University of New York at New Paltz; Dean of Students at Amherst College; Dean of Students and adjunct professor at Cornell University; and Head of Friends Academy in Locust Valley, New York. Currently, Drinkwater is the Interim Head of School at Blue Oak School and a leader in SC21 Napa, a model of community engagement for district wide school reform, focusing on project-based learning. Together with his wife, Jacqueline Smethurst, David has founded Wingspan Partnerships, a non-profit dedicated to narrowing the education gap through partnerships between public and private schools. Drinkwater holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees in History from Oxford University.