David Ryan Bunting is an instructor in the Education Department at Washington and Jefferson College. His research focuses on the implementation of empathetic instruction and restorative practices in teacher education. Ryan has worked alongside international mediator and award-winning Peace prize recipient Mary Montague in the United States and Northern Ireland on Restorative Practice and in schools, alternative schools, and communities throughout western Pennsylvania. Ryan is an award-winning elementary teacher, working in socio-economically and racially diverse schools in both Memphis, Tennessee and Washington, Pennsylvania. Ryan is also the head boys basketball coach at Washington High School and spends his summers as a mentor and summer camp director at the Lemoyne Community Center in Washington, Pa.