David Bruce Grim

Before Retirement

1992-2004- Deputy Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, US Agency for International Development. Managed the Agency's EEO complaint process, and conducted investigations, mediation and training in Washington and overseas, including work in South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Cote D'Ivoire, Peru, Jamaica, and the Philippines.

1987-1992- Equal Opportunity Specialist, Office for Civil Rights, US Environmental Protection Agency. Conducted EEO complaint investigations, wrote case decisions, developed environmental justice policy, and created an Agency partnership with a city junior high school.

1975-1986- Equal Opportunity Specialist, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, US Commission on Civil Rights. Researched and wrote chapters in Commission publications and Congressional testimony on school desegregation and equal opportunity in higher education.

1972-1975- US Department of Agriculture. Conducted investigations under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prevent discrimination in Federally-assisted programs. Duke University graduate (BA, 1972), father of two, grandfather of three.

After Retirement

Since I left my Federal career in civil rights enforcement, research, reporting, and Congressional liaison, I have volunteered on a variety of social and environmental justice projects through my Unitarian fellowship. I have been affiliated with Penn Center in various capacities in recent years and, currently, I serve on the Board of Trustees there. My life's work and my personal life compelled me to write Swift Currents, to help lift the level of tolerance and good will between the races. I hope that this story will help more young people and their parents come to a greater understanding of our shared racial history and abandon the inherited prejudice of generations.

I can be found online at http://www.swiftcurrents1861.com/ and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Swift-Currents.