David Evan Harris

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David Evan Harris is the Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He lived in Brazil from 2004-2007 as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar, receiving a master's degree in Sociology from the University of São Paulo. He received his B.A. in 2003 from UC Berkeley, where he created his own major in "political economy of development and environment."

In college he took part in the International Honors Program, where he spent eight months travelling and studying in Tanzania, India, the Philippines, Mexico, and the UK. In 2000, he held an internship at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and has since worked as a consultant to numerous non-profit and educational organisations in the U.S. and Brazil.

In Brazil, he wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. His writings and photographs have been published in print with Adbusters, the Sarai Reader, Glimpse Magazine, Next American City, Focus on the Global South and online with Alternet and Grist. His written work has been translated French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Chinese. David speaks fluent English, Portuguese and Spanish and intermediate French.