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Dãnia Davy

Titles

  • Adjunct Faculty

Biography

Dãnia serves as Senior Policy Advisor, US Southeast Region at Oxfam, an international humanitarian organization committed to creating an Equal Future where she leads state-level policy advocacy in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, & North Carolina amplifying the leadership of feminine and minoritized peoples on the frontlines of worker abuses and climate change. Prior to her current role, she served as Director of Land Retention and Advocacy at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund. After double concentrating in Community Health and Africana Studies at Brown University, she earned her J.D. at University of Virginia School of Law. Dãnia began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow at the NCABL Land Loss Prevention Project implementing a project she designed which provided community education and estate planning services to improve Black farmers’ access to legal services in the rural South. Dãnia currently serves on the board of the Southern Rural Development Center. She is also the proud mom of an amazing 10-year-old! 

Expertise

  • Food and Agriculture
  • Race and the Law

Departments

  • Summer Session

Courses Taught

  • Racial Equity in Land, Farms & Food Systems