Bio for David Elliot
Communications Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

David Elliot is the Communications Director for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death penalty. He is a former journalist and newspaper reporter with the Austin American-Statesman. He covered death penalty-related issues and state politics as a capitol bureau reporter from 1990 to 1995, and was recognized for outstanding coverage by the Associated Press Managing Editors Convention for A day in the death of Inmate No. 918, an eyewitness account of an execution in Texas. He was also honored by the Center for Public Policy Priorities and the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches. He formerly held the posts of communications director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (1999-2001) and press officer for the progressive group People For the American Way (1996-1999), which monitors the religious right political movement.