Dave Ramin has been a teacher at Maybeck since the fall of 2006. Before coming to Maybeck he taught Social Studies and English courses at the Community School of the East Bay, Redwood High School in Marin, Berkeley High, and Whale Gulch School in rural Humboldt County. Before teaching he was at Stanford University, where he earned an MA in Education, and at UC Berkeley, earning a BA with Honors in History and a minor in Cultural Anthropology.

Before college and after high school he spent several decades in various pursuits. He was a carpenter, baker, cook, bookseller, and farmer; often working in collectives and living at various communes, Zen monasteries, and other remote locales. He was one of the people who worked year-round at producing the early annual Rainbow Gatherings. He also studied at both the Naropa Institute and with the poets at the Jack Kerouac School of Dis-Embodied Poetics in their early years.

Dave has a passion for wilderness, where he is most often found outside of the school year. His other interests include poetry, travel, indigenous cultures and deep ecology. He has a partner who is a yoga teacher and physical therapist. They have two children: a daughter who lives in NYC, working as an art historian, and a son who hopes to come to Maybeck in just a few years.

At Maybeck Dave has taught World History, Cultural Anthropology, World Religions, Chinese History and Culture, Economics, Hiking, Photography, and Health.