Pronouns: She/Her
Davian is a mobilizer of resources and social justice practitioner with experience in the nonprofit, public, and philanthropic sectors. She has mobilized millions of dollars to support social justice efforts by using an equity and social justice lens and authored an article about funder collaboratives. She is also an alum of The Funders’ Network PLACES fellowship. For her education, she went to the University of Denver for undergrad and graduate school and holds a Master of Social Work.
In her consulting practice, she offers visioning on resource mobilizing, racial equity learning, and facilitation and coaching on transformative leadership and healing. She is leader with Standing in Our Power and a certified trainer in the “Breakdown to Breakthrough” model for personal and organizational transformation co-created by Taij Moteelall of Standing in Our Power. The Breakdown to Breakthrough model is built on the notion that we must breakdown and release what is not working and no longer serving us to live into a breakthrough vision. It recognizes that both internalized and systemic oppression are significant barriers to building power and creating lasting change and that we need to create intentional spaces and processes to release the ways we’ve internalized oppression and our attachment to oppressive systems.
She joined the Chinook Fund community in 2006 through the grantmaking committee and transitioned into a co-chair role for the committee as well as joined the board of directors. In 2019, she re-joined the board of directors and is excited to make some money and resources move for the Chinook Fund.
A quote that Davian uses often in her work in life in general is “Lift as you climb!”