Dave Brewington holds a PhD in Sociology from Emory University. For over 20 years, he has worked in and studied non-profit organizations and the public sphere, including with the American Red Cross in San Francisco, the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management (now defunct), the American Academy of Religion, the YMCA of the USA, the American Diabetes association, and with Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. His scholarly work includes original research on international human rights non-governmental organizations, curation of a historical catalog with 33,000 international organizations into an analyzable dataset, and one of the first systematic historical accounts of religious international organizations. More recently, he specializes in the technical and methodological aspects of survey data collection and analysis, and manages the Enterprise Data Analytics team at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago.