David C. Harvey
CEO and President
ProLiteracy Worldwide

As President and CEO of ProLiteracy Worldwide, David C. Harvey leads the world's largest organization of adult basic education and literacy programs. He is responsible for the organization's advocacy efforts on behalf of adult learners at the national and international levels, oversees the operations of New Readers Press, ProLiteracy's publishing division, leads the domestic and international programs that provide training and resources to the programs that offer adults instruction in reading, writing, and mathematics.

Mr. Harvey has a long history of working on behalf of people in need and the disenfranchised. Prior to assuming his position at ProLiteracy, Mr. Harvey served as founding executive director of AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families, a national training, research, and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. He is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on health, disability and HIV/AIDS issues. As a project director with the National Disability Rights Network, he directed disability and legal rights education projects; he directed government relations activities for the National Pediatric/Family HIV Resource Center of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. He has participated in several blue-ribbon advisory panels and committees and has testified before Congress.