Kimberley H. Davis, MA, MPA, is the Department Chair and Professor of Political Science at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. She is the Founder and Director of the Sojourner Truth Technical Training Center at Adrian College and is currently working for her PH.D from Wayne State University.

Her research and education experiences with the study of the Underground Railroad include: Founding and Director of the research center entitled Sojourner Truth Technical Training Center which implemented the FREEDOM SCHOOL INITIATIVE in Adrian, Michigan, the COMMUNITY RESEARCH TEAMS INITIATIVE in Lenawee County Michigan, FREEDOM SCHOLARS PROGRAM for Adrian College students, as well as developing the relational database known as the TERMINUS Digital Archive. The training center also holds training symposiums that train individuals and groups on the concept of recording history into the TERMINUS database. She has also been involved in programs that include the following: co-teaching an Honors Seminar titled “The Underground Railroad and Other Flights to Freedom”, where in 1998 the class traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to participate in Anthony Cohen’s walk to Canada. Davis is currently conducting research through the Sojourner Truth Technical Training Center which indicates that Asa Mahan, the founder of Adrian College was not only outspoken against slavery, but was likely intimately involved with the Underground Railroad. Davis was also the co-coordinator for the Michigan Stage of Anthony Cohen’s Walk to Canada: The Revival 1998 as well as residing in a house that was a safehouse on the Underground Railroad.

Davis earned a BA in political science and journalism, an MA in Journalism, and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is currently pursuing doctoral degree from Wayne State University. She also worked in southern Africa for seven years. Davis developed the current pediatric Multidisciplinary Sickle Cell Clinic at the University of Michigan Medical Center, a youth reading program and volunteers for youth and community organizations.

Kimberly Davis' diverse skills include speaking fluent Portuguese and Spanish as well as some Zulu and Shangane, training in computer programming and experience with several software packages for data analysis, word processing, and relational databases. She has professional training in photography and has been in practice since 1974.

Volunteer work includes: St. Joseph’s Academy and Montessori Children’s House in Adrian, Michigan and a member of the advisory council member from 1994-1996, Adrian Training School, Adrian, Michigan as a volunteer and teacher, Woodson and Wheatley Young Scholars Advancement Society and Effective Parenting Education, Adrian, Michigan as Co-founder and Director, Tutoring At-Risk youth in core subject areas, Washtenaw County Task Force on African American Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a member of the African American Health Professionals Planning Committees for the Washtenaw County Task Force on African American Health, University of Michigan Hospitals Minority Health Care Initiative, African American Health Summit.

Davis is the mother of two children, Mariama, 16, and John Amara, 10.