David Gray

Director, Workforce and Family Program
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Dr. David Gray has directed the New America Foundation's Workforce and Family Program since 2005. David’s events are widely attended and his writings about social mobility, work-life balance, workforce development, family and child well-being, economic growth, politics, and religion have appeared in publications such as USA TODAY, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Daily News, and The Baltimore Sun. He blogs frequently for the Huffington Post. David’s books include Practicing Balance: How Congregations Can Promote Harmony in Work and Life, Faith in Service, 1015 and Spiritual Calcium.

David is a former acting assistant secretary for policy in the senior executive service at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), where he advised the Secretary of Labor, managed the DOL offices of regulatory policy, programmatic policy, compliance assistance/technology, and economic analysis/research, staffed a number of White House working groups, and represented the U.S. abroad in negotiations in Mexico and in Chile. David has served as a counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Government Management and as a legislative aid to several members of Congress. He is a graduate of Yale, Harvard, Wesley Seminary and Northwestern.

Publications

Book Page | Sep 3, 2012
Article | May 11, 2012 | Christian Science Monitor
Special Feature | Mar 10, 2011
Article | Aug 30, 2010 | Los Angeles Daily News
Article | Jun 17, 2010 | The Washington Times

Events

Event | Oct 17, 2012 | Washington
Event | Jun 21, 2012 | Washington
Event | May 16, 2012 | Washington
Event | May 3, 2012 | Washington
Event | Feb 23, 2012 | Washington
Event | Jul 21, 2011 | Washington
Event | Mar 9, 2011 | Washington