Dr. Charles H.F Davis III

Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III is a third-generation educator and creator committed to the lives, love, and liberation of everyday Black people. Named a 2020 Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Dr. Davis is an award-winning professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and the former Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Research for the USC Race and Equity Center.

Dr. Davis’ research and teaching broadly focus on issues of race, racism, and systemic oppression in education and society. He has produced more than three dozen publications including research articles, books, and scholarly essays as well as several short and feature-length films. In addition to his scholarship, Dr. Davis has trained more the 7,000 students, educators, and institutional leaders from over 100 colleges and universities around the world.

As an organizer, Dr. Davis is the founder and director for the Scholars for Black Lives collective, an international group of grassroots and university thinkers who are politically committed to the labor of engaged scholarship, public teaching, and advocacy against injustice to the end of improving the material conditions for everyday Black people.

He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where Black Lives Matter Los Angeles is his political home.