David Newsome is a director in the Employer Mobilization practice at JFF. He helps design and implement programs to advance employers’ skills-based talent practices that improve business outcomes while enabling equitable economic advancement for workers.

His skills and areas of expertise include:

• Skills-based talent practices
• Private-sector change management
• Program design and development
• Community and economic development
• Multisector partnerships and collaboration

Before joining JFF, Newsome was vice president of strategic initiatives at Virginia Community Capital Social Enterprises, a community development financial institution, where he led internal and external projects to increase access to economic opportunity.

Educational background:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, University of Virginia
• Master’s degree in city planning, MIT
• MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management