Leona Davis

Leona Davis leads a new initiative to offer an interdisciplinary professional master's degree in Resilience Practice, as well as several graduate certificates and non-credit professional certificates in topics related to environmental and community resilience. Leona’s professional journey includes teaching in K-12 schools, designing and building water harvesting systems, managing community food system programs at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, and helping to build and coordinate AIR’s Earth Grant program.

Leona’s areas of interest include environmental leadership education, culturally responsive pedagogy, equitable and accessible program design, and participatory science. Her research has been published in Environmental Health Perspectives, Citizen Science Theory and Practice, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.