David E Rivers

David E. Rivers is an Associate Professor and Director of the Public Information and Community Outreach at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has served the University in a number of capacities since January 1995. During the past thirty-five years, he has held senior-level positions in Atlanta City government, the Atlanta Regional Commission, Georgia State University, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Energy and Government for the District of Columbia. Rivers serves as Chairman of the James E. Clyburn Research and Scholarship Foundation and he is President of the Jonathan Green Foundation. He is a member of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, American Water Works Association, Water Environment Federation, and the 100 Black Men of Charleston, SC. Rivers also serves on several boards of directors and associations including: the South Carolina Aquarium, National Urban Fellows, the Alliance for Digital Equality, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s 21st Century Council Executive Committee, Rural Mission, Inc., Advisory Board of Charleston First Reliance Bank, Art Form and Theater Concepts, Inc., the Trident Urban League; the National Caucus and Center for Black Aged, Inc., the Charleston Enterprise Community Health Center, the National Brownfields Association of South Carolina and he served as a member of the board of the Community Foundation and the Charleston Regional Development Alliance. Rivers was elected to serve as a Commissioner of Public Works for the City of Charleston in 2003 and was re-elected in September of 2009 serving as Vice Chairman. David Rivers received a Bachelor of Science degree in Urban Affairs from Georgia State University and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science/Public Administration from Georgia State University, where he has completed course work for a Ph.D. in Political Science. He is a graduate of the National Urban Fellows program, Class of 1974, in Public Administration from Yale University. He is a graduate of the Riley Institute Diversity Leadership Program at Furman University and recently received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Allen University.