Adam Davis
Associate Director for Programs


Adam Davis is the lead facilitator and coordinator of Justice Talking, a social-justice oriented seminar series for AmeriCorps members; an instructor in the Odyssey Project in the Humanities; the Executive Director of Camp of Dreams, a non-profit organization providing year-round programming for underserved 9-15 year olds in Chicago; and a Research Associate with the Project on Civic Reflection. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2003), his M.A. from Boston College (1996), and his B.A. from Kenyon College (1993). He has spent several years as a lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Chicago and as a backcountry trail crew leader for the United States Forest Service. Davis, with Elizabeth M. Lynn, co-edited The Civically Engaged Reader, published by the Great Books Foundation in August 2006.

Taken from Civic Reflection