David Bobb

For more than 20 years David Bobb has been one of the leading advocates for strong civics and history education in the United States.

David joined the Bill of Rights Institute (BRI) in 2013. Under his leadership, the Institute increased by four-fold the number of teachers and students it serves. With more than 75,000 teachers nationwide in its network who serve 7.5 million students, BRI is the nation’s leading provider of free, open educational resources for civics and history classrooms.
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David serves on the advisory board for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s National Civics Bee and on the Implementation Consortium for Educating for Democracy, a cross-ideological roadmap for civic learning and engagement.

Author of Humility: An Unlikely Biography of America’s Greatest Virtue (Harper Collins, 2013), and a chapter on Frederick Douglass in a 2019 volume published by Oxford University Press, David has written for the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company, among numerous other publications. Currently he is writing a book on the future of civics.
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David earned a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College.