Dave Power, President and CEO of Perkins School for the Blind, has guided growing organizations as an operating executive, board member, and advisor for over 28 years. Today, he directs Perkins' mission of helping children and young adults who are blind, deafblind, or low vision realize their potential in college, employment, and community engagement.
Power teaches Design Thinking at Harvard Extension School, where he received the Joanne Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014, and he is the author of The Curve Ahead: Discovering the Path to Unlimited Growth. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tufts, and an MBA from Stanford Business School. He recently received the Tufts School of Engineering Outstanding Career Achievement Award.