For the last 14 years, David Clohessy has served as the national director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the nation's largest and oldest self help group for clergy molestation victims.

In that role, he has travelled and spoken extensively, helping to set up local support groups in more than 50 cities. In 2002, Clohessy was one of only four survivors to address all of America's Catholic bishops at their historic meeting in Dallas. He has appeared on Sixty Minutes, the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Phil Donahue Show, Good Morning America, and been featured or quoted in dozens of newspapers around the world.

Clohessy's professional career includes working as a community organizer in low income neighborhoods, and as a union organizer representing low wage workers. He has also done political and public relations consulting. Clohessy helped elect St. Louis' first African American mayor, later joining his communications staff. He also helped elect the city's first female prosecutor (Dee Joyce Hayes), and guided school districts and other public entities seeking tax and bond measures at the ballot box.

Clohessy is a 1978 graduate of Drury University in Springfield. In June 2003, he received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the school.

He is married and has two sons.