David McCullough founded a nonprofit that takes the model of a foreign exchange program and applies it to towns with different demographics across the United States—“study abroad in your own country,” he likes to say. It’s called The American Exchange Project, and David now serves as its Executive Director. He hopes the program will help American students from different backgrounds develop more empathy and respect for one another, and maybe even make a few friends.
Smith is producer and co‐writer of the award winning documentary "Invisible Soldiers: Unheard Voices" which aired nationally on PBS. He is the concept creator and Co-Executive Producer and Senior Writer for the 2018 documentary, "An American Story: Race Amity" and "The Other Tradition" airing on public television (http://raceamityfilm.org).
Through Smith’s leadership, the NCRA organized the Metro Boston Race Amity Festival which has been held for the past seven years on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. It also hosts the annual National Race Amity Conference (http://raceamity.org) and organized the legislative initiative that culminated December 29, 2015 in Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signing into law Massachusetts Race Amity Day. The bill “Authorizes Race Amity Day To Be Celebrated Annually The Second Sunday in June ” and directs the sitting Governor to issue an annual proclamation to the 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In June 2016 the US Senate passed a Resolution designating June 13, 2016 as National Race Amity Day.
