David Howard Lempert (February 12, 1959), is an anthropologist, author, social entrepreneur/NGO head, legal scholar/lawyer, and international development consultant. Though his work crosses many fields, he is known primarily as an educational innovator in the field of experiential education, and is seen as a modern Alexis de Tocqueville for his social ethnography on legal and political systems that includes field work as the first U.S. anthropologist in urban Russia (coining the term Pepsi-stroika), and as a modern James Madison for his creative constitutional amendments that offer new ways of thinking about democracy in industrial societies. His work on demographics and politics places him among modern neo-Malthusian social theorists. Lempert was born in New York City on February 12, 1959, the 150th birthday of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, to parents of Polish-Ukrainian-Moldovan-Jewish and Hungarian-Lithuanian-Jewish descent. He is a cousin of California Assemblyman Ted Lempert, and policy analyst Robert Lempert, and older sibling of sisters Marci Lempert Riley and Cheryl Lempert Cohen. His first published piece, a quip in "Out of the Mouths of Babes", appeared in a [ - ]

David Howard Lempert (February 12, 1959), is an anthropologist, author, social entrepreneur/NGO... [ + ]