Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker is Rosh Yeshiva at David Shapell College of Jewish Studies / Yeshiva Darché Noam. He had spent 16 years as the Rosh Beit Midrash at Aish HaTorah where he developed curricula and programs for the Yeshiva, mentored faculty, and has guided the academic and spiritual growth of hundreds of students. An alumnus of NCSY (and later a faculty member of their acclaimed Summer Kollel), he learned at Kerem B’Yavneh, Heichal HaTorah, Yeshivas Mir, and Birchas Mordechai, and has smicha from HaRav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, zt"l.