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David Bryan was born in New York City and grew up in large cities and small rural communities in New York and New Jersey. He attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook (BA, 1974), the University of California at Los Angeles (MS, 1978), and the State University of New York at Buffalo (JD, 1982, Ph.D., 1985). Broad interests have led to several careers, including teaching law, communication theory, and kinesiology at SUNY @ Buffalo and UCLA, kinesiological research at UCLA’s Electromyography Lab, and private kinesiology practice. In 1985 he started a private business and began what would be a three year exploration of other cultures that took him to many Caribbean islands. In 1989 he moved to Los Angeles, where he taught briefly in the LA Unified public school district, and then for six years at Crossroads, an independent K-12 school in Santa Monica, California. Also at Crossroads, he served as the Chair and then Dean of Human Development. In 1995 he became the founding Head of School of New Roads School. His publications include articles on law, language, mass media, movement and health and have appeared in such journals as The Buffalo Law Review, The Native American Law Review, Revision and others.