We spoke today with David Shapiro, the CEO of Mentor: The National Mentoring Partnership. Our conversation touched on the lessons that both COVID and Black Lives Matter has imparted on the youth mentoring field, the need for a collectivist approach in addressing inequity, and David's personal experience with youth mentoring. 

David Shapiro's bio:

Chief Executive Officer

David Shapiro is CEO of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, the national organization unifying and elevating the youth mentoring field through expertise, advocacy, and recruitment. For more than 13 years, he has dedicated his career to driving equity through the power of relationships and is a servant leader for the mentoring movement.

Under Shapiro’s leadership, MENTOR has partnered with leading global brands including the NBA family, Nike, Starbucks, LinkedIn and others to expand the mentoring movement through recruitment; grew its national footprint to include 24 local Affiliates in communities nationwide; and has worked extensively with the Obama Foundation to center mentoring through My Brother’s Keeper Alliance. Additionally, the U.S Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention selected MENTOR to establish and lead the National Mentoring Resource Center.

He is a husband, father, and mentor.