Dana-Ain Davis (1958 -) was born in New York. After college she worked at the Village Voice and then went into the non-profit world, working a the YWCA of the City of New York, WNYC-TV, The Village Centers for Care, and Bronx AIDS Services. Davis received her PhD in Anthropology and is currently Associate Chair of the Graduate Program in Urban Affairs at Queens College and is on the faculty of the PhD Program in Anthrpology at the Graduate Center. She has served as an active member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) as, President of the Association of Black Anthropologists, co-editor of Transforming Anthropology with Aimee Cox, and was the Program Chair with Alaka Wali for the AAA's 112th Annual Meeting in Chicago.