Hi, I'm Taylor!
Taylor Davis graduated with their Master's of Social Work student at Virginia Commonwealth University. They also were an undergraduate from Virginia Commonwealth University with a double major in Psychology and Criminal Justice and a minor in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
Taylor has extensive violence prevention work experience within campus and community settings at both the micro and macro level. They spent the last two years of their undergraduate career as President of Students Advocating Violence Education and Support (SAVES), an organization that focuses on peer education about violence through events, campaigns and discussions. During those years, they also served as a Peer Advocate Intern at VCU’s Wellness Resource Center where they helped students who had experienced violence determine their options on campus. Other experiences include working as a virtual intern for the One Love Foundation, being a Hotline Intern at the YWCA of Richmond and co-leading Virginia Anti-Violence Project’s Communications Committee! Taylor has also been lead and co-organizer on many other projects including VCU's Social Justice League, the Black Minds Matter Project, and the Sex Club at VCU. During graduate school, Taylor worked as a Graduate Assistant for LGBTQIA+ & Gender Services at VCU's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and as an MSW Intern at Diversity Richmond and the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance. Since graduating, they have maintained involvement in community work through the VCU School of Social Work Black Lives Matter Collective and doing violence prevention evaluation work.
Taylor has been a community organizer and has worked and/or collaborated to plan marches, vigils, open letter campaigns, and healing spaces. They believe that justice will come from within the community and by the community. Taylor is certificated in Mental Health First Aid, Wilderness First Aid and as a Street Medic for direct actions.
Note about pronouns: Taylor is a genderqueer person that uses they/them pronouns. They prefer non-binary terms such as "person" or "friend," rather than "miss" or "ma'am." And as we should all be practicing to be more inclusive in our language, using terms such as "good evening folks" or "good morning everyone" instead of "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls" when introducing events and programs.
Taylor has extensive violence prevention work experience within campus and community settings at both the micro and macro level. They spent the last two years of their undergraduate career as President of Students Advocating Violence Education and Support (SAVES), an organization that focuses on peer education about violence through events, campaigns and discussions. During those years, they also served as a Peer Advocate Intern at VCU’s Wellness Resource Center where they helped students who had experienced violence determine their options on campus. Other experiences include working as a virtual intern for the One Love Foundation, being a Hotline Intern at the YWCA of Richmond and co-leading Virginia Anti-Violence Project’s Communications Committee! Taylor has also been lead and co-organizer on many other projects including VCU's Social Justice League, the Black Minds Matter Project, and the Sex Club at VCU. During graduate school, Taylor worked as a Graduate Assistant for LGBTQIA+ & Gender Services at VCU's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and as an MSW Intern at Diversity Richmond and the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance. Since graduating, they have maintained involvement in community work through the VCU School of Social Work Black Lives Matter Collective and doing violence prevention evaluation work.
Taylor has been a community organizer and has worked and/or collaborated to plan marches, vigils, open letter campaigns, and healing spaces. They believe that justice will come from within the community and by the community. Taylor is certificated in Mental Health First Aid, Wilderness First Aid and as a Street Medic for direct actions.
Note about pronouns: Taylor is a genderqueer person that uses they/them pronouns. They prefer non-binary terms such as "person" or "friend," rather than "miss" or "ma'am." And as we should all be practicing to be more inclusive in our language, using terms such as "good evening folks" or "good morning everyone" instead of "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls" when introducing events and programs.
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