Calling the feature of our third episode, David Alexander, multi-talented feels like the understatement of 2021! Through dance, podcasts, poetry, and businesses, David lives a life of creativity. He is also one of YWSTL's most beloved and legendary teaching artists! Listen to his episode to learn what it takes to live a truly artistic life, in all of its facets.

This episode also features poetry from YWSTL's recently completed Crossing Delmar between Confluence Academies and New City School, of which David was one of our instructors.

David Alexander is a dancer, poet, speaker, and entrepreneur. He has impacted well over 150,000 people by  presenting at school assemblies with organizations BreakDown St. Louis, iTHINK Big School Assemblies, and dancing for corporate events, fundraisers, and churches. David was a selected speaker at the Channel Nine Network for “Blog Out Loud,” with the Young Nonprofits Professionals Association in St. Louis in 2013, and he leads an Arts Fellowship Program put on by the Regional Arts Commission, Center for Emerging Technologies, and Cambridge Innovation Center.  He has worked as a social media marketing leader, consultant, and is currently the Co-Founder of Social Origin, a digital storytelling company focused within the space of podcasting. He hosts a variety of shows in addition to his own also under the name Social Origin.