Dr. David Allen Wolfe is a psychologist, academic and an author specializing in issues of domestic violence, child abuse, children and youth. His work includes the promotion of healthy relationships via school programs, with a major focus on the prevention of child neglect and abuse, dating violence, bullying, substance abuse, unsafe sex and other consequences of unhealthy relationships.

Winner of many awards, David earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York in 1973, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Florida in 1980. After his residency in Clinical psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Wolfe moved to Canada to pursue his career focus on domestic violence and child abuse with an emphasis on prevention. He joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) in 1981 where he conducted extensive research in the field of child abuse.