David Baptista

Overview

David Baptista is co founder and learning leader of Latin American Leadership Academy (LALA). David's passion is helping students develop the essential dispositions skills habits and values that support lifelong learning and wellness. Over the past fifteen years he has taught STEAM philosophy history and theater at the International School of Curitiba trained teachers and consulted for schools across Brazil led retreats for the Posse Foundation developed innovative social and emotional learning (SEL) curricula and helped build assessment tools at Lectica. When he met Diego Ontaneda Benavides and heard about LALA he saw the potential this institution held to transform educational practice for an entire continent. After two pilot programs in 2017 they founded LALA together in 2018. David triple majored in philosophy physics and history from Tufts University with honors in each major.