David Flink is a leader on the front lines of the learning rights movement. In 1998, while a student at Brown University, he co-founded Eye to Eye, which has grown into a national mentoring organization that is empowering young people with learning disabilities by pairing them with mentors who share that experience. In 2011, David was named one of the New Leaders Council’s "40 Under 40." Most recently, David was elected to the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship.
Here, he discusses how his experience at Brown helped launch his future career and how his ability to ask for help was pivotal to his success.