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David Warnock

“One of the magical things about this place is that we’ve taken a traditional workforce development model and recognized that if we’re going to prepare people to be really successful, we have to think about all those collateral disabilities that keep people from buying into a world that many of us wake up to every day and take for granted—everything from how to be a father to how to buy a house, to how to not get ripped off buying a car or cashing your paycheck. The only way to change things is to be an information network for people—and that’s what we provide.”

“The only way to change things is to be an information network for people—and that’s what we provide... ” 

When he was a child, David Warnock wanted to be a “rock star,” he says, “like everybody else!” His ambitions changed along the way. His father was brought up on an Indian reservation and went from there to M.I.T. David was raised in a middle-class family with the expectation that he would not only do well, but that he would “do something out of the ordinary.” David graduated from the University of Delaware and received a master’s at the University of Wisconsin. He is a founding partner at Camden Partners and serves as the Chairman of the Board at the Center for Urban Families.