Her academic experience includes studies in professional communication, linguistic anthropology and government at Alverno College and Harvard University. Davis is co-founder of The Bestowing of the Kente, an Alverno College commencement event where, in a rites of passage ceremony, graduates are presented with the Kente cloth of West Africa. Davis is a member of the National Organization for Women and has been a proponent for issues that affect women and children. Her writing has been featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Milwaukee Community Journal and Saturday Night at Harvard. She is a community columnist for the Journal Sentinel.