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Dãnia Davy

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Biography

With nearly twenty years of professional experience supporting historically excluded land stewards and their communities, Dãnia Davy, Esq., offers right-sized, expert client services in the areas of funder relations, government relations, public relations, and risk mitigation. Prior to her current role as owner of Land & Liberation LLC, Davy led state-level policy advocacy for Oxfam in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Carolina, amplifying the leadership of feminine and minoritized peoples on the frontlines of worker abuses and climate change. She has served as director of land retention and advocacy at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund. She began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow at the NCABL Land Loss Prevention Project implementing a project she designed that provided community education and estate planning services to improve Black farmers’ access to legal services in the rural South. She currently serves on the board of the Southern Rural Development Center. She received her BA degree from Brown University and her JD degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

 

Expertise

  • Food and Agriculture
  • Race and the Law

Departments

  • Summer Session

Courses Taught

  • Food System Equity and Critical Race Theory
  • Racial Equity in Land, Farms & Food Systems