David Hughes is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Georgia State University. In 2019 while at Hampton University, David secured a $400,000 technology grant to start the first eSports initiative at an HBCU. David has been a Graduate School of Education pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, is a proud Morehouse College and Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) alumnus. Preceding his work in higher education, David has had numerous years of experience in the sports industry working for the Houston Texans, the University of Texas, and interning at ESPN, the University of Miami, 790 the Zone and Georgia State University during his undergraduate studies. David is the current co-chair for the Educational Committee with the Atlanta NAACP Chapter, and a Board Member on Creekside High school’s Student Governance Council. He has been nominated for faculty of the year, published a children’s books that highlight HBCU accomplishments, selected as an Emerging Scholar by American Educational Research Association (AERA), and has received certificates from Bloomberg in Business Market Concepts, the University of Pennsylvania for Race and Equity in Education and from Hampton University for Executive Leadership training. In addition, David has been elected as the Diversity Chair on the executive student board of the North American Society of Sport Management (NASSM), served as a former Philadelphia Summer Search Youth Board Member, has been selected by HBCU Buzz as a 30 under 30 recipient, has been selected as an 40 under 40 recipient by PVAMU, was the first Student President of the Drake Group before serving on the board of directors for the Drake Group; he is a member of 100 Black Men, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He has been selected as a Next Generation Leader by the NAACP; served as the Education Committee  Co-Chair for the Atlanta branch of the NAACP, and has served as the Secretary of the Houston Morehouse Alumni Association for 5 years. In addition to his work in education and sports, David is the founder and CEO of the Give Black App, which is the world’s first social impact financial technology (FinTech) app for Black philanthropic efforts for Black organizations.