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Prior to being named Chief Learning Officer, overseeing the creation, design, and delivery of all international and virtual education programs, for Academica, LLC (the nation's largest and most successful charter school management organization), he previously served as the inaugural principal of Somerset Virtual Academy and Somerset International. Preceding his entrance into educational leadership, Daniel acquired six years of formal teaching and counseling experience with high school students, mostly in the fields of American History, Contemporary Ethics, Health/Sexuality Education, and College/Career Advising. He has earned a master's degree in Educational Psychology from Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis.

Daniel is most passionate about promoting values of social and political agency, civic leadership, and personal and global accountability with young people in both formal academic and informal educational settings. More specifically, he enjoys working to develop best-practice methods for enhancing and improving curriculum, bolstering instructional delivery methods through both traditional and virtual conduits, developing more passionate, informed, and effective educators, and shaping and influencing public policy and legislation in the best interest of all students, families, and communities.

In a controversial discussion of public education in the United States, Meyer talks about how in his view the model of education has been wrong for generations. He
discusses how the goal of education in the US is domination of students where it needs to be empowerment and the development of critical thinkers and lifelong learners. Meyer provides a look at the philosophy behind education as it is now and what he thinks needs to change.

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