Aisha Davis (she/her) serves as the Senior Policy Counsel for Lambda Legal’s Midwest Office. Davis is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and most recently served as Law Clerk for the Family Court of the State of Delaware for Chief Judge Chandlee Johnson Kuhn.

Davis works on intersectional matters and her commitment to civil and human rights while working to further Lambda Legal’s mission to win justice for the LGBT community and people living with HIV in African-American communities.

While at Columbia University, Davis was an editor of the Columbia Journal of Race and Law, vice-chair of the Black Law Student Association, and a coach for the Frederick Douglass Moot Court. She also earned her Master of Law from the University of London, graduating with Merit. Her dissertation was titled Intersectionality and International Law: Recognizing Complex Identities on the Global Stage, and she specialized in Human Rights, Conflict & Justice.

Davis completed her undergraduate work at Washington & Lee University, with concentrations in African-American Studies and the Shepard Poverty Program.

Davis has previously worked with Amnesty International, the Human Rights Foundation, the African American Policy Forum, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, and has been published in The Frisky, For Harriet, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies’ blog. In 2011, she received the Bright Future Award from the Black Women’s Agenda, Inc., and in 2012, she received a Certificate of Achievement from the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law.