Later Career
Dinkins is a Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Each year Columbia hosts the Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum. In 2011 the 14th Annual Forum focused on Crisis in State Budgets, with keynote speaker U.S. Senator Kristen Gillibrand. Although he has not attempted a political comeback, he has remained somewhat active in politics, and his endorsement of various candidates, including Mark J. Green in the 2001 Mayoral race, was well-publicized. He supported Democrats Fernando Ferrer in the 2005 New York mayoral election and Bill Thompson in 2009.
In the campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Dinkins served as an elected delegate for Hillary Clinton from New York.
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