Dr. Davis (she/her)’s work as an educational researcher is dedicated to equity and creativity in service of underserved youth, teachers, and communities. Dr. Davis most recently served as the Director of Research for the Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Reimagining toward Equity, Access, and Teacher Effectiveness Project at Georgia State University, where she led the research collaborations between local school districts, university teacher prep programs, and community partners. Prior to CREATE, Davis served as an evaluator and Director of the National Youth Poet Laureate Program of Urban Word, where she managed equity-centered youth development in out-of-school spaces across a network of 70 US counties and cities. 

Davis holds a Ph.D. in Critical Educational Policy from Ball State University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Marian University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

RPPL is well positioned to identify and magnify what works in PL in the service of all children, with a focus on our nation’s most marginalized youth. The research partnership element of RPPL’s design can improve PL by shortening the gap between what we know and what we do in PL, putting researchers and practitioners in closer, reciprocal relationships. 

CAMEA DAVIS, PHD
Director of Equitable Research-Practice Partnerships