Heidi Davis was born in Germany (long story). Her home town is Erwin, TN. She has a degree in Human Development and Learning with a focus on Early Childhood Development. Heidi’s research areas are how social programs affect learning in public schools, the effects of poverty in education, the effects of long-term, systemic poverty on populations, and she has recently added the War on Poverty in Appalachia and Appalachian history and culture.

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Currently she serves as the liaison for the Petersburg Project at the College of William and Mary. Heidi works with several nonprofits, the local churches, different colleges on our campus, William and Mary students, people at Richard Bland and people at Virginia State University and somehow gets all of them on the same page to work on capacity building projects in Petersburg to address the various community needs. She is grateful to have a job that stretches her so much. Back home she worked in a similar way with several local agencies