Daniel earned a Masters in Public Administration in nonprofit management from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. In the summer of 2009, Daniel relocated to Tucson with his wife and four children to begin a new season of public service as Executive Director of Arizona Youth Partnership (AzYP). Over 15 years of management and program development experience in the not-for-profit sector provide him with the unique experience and preparation to lead AzYP and ODCS through the process of founding a charter school.  He had the unique experience of participating in the development of a private school in a rural community in western New York founded by his parents which now has several hundred students and has been in existence for over 30 years.