Featured grants
- Davis, Dionne Laverne (Principal), Pena, Rosa Maria (Co-Principal). Centering Students as Policy Actors in Educational Contexts, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $16000. (Submitted: 2025, Funded: 2025 - 2026). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Davis, D. L., & Mobley, A. (2025). I Have My Sister’s Back: Cultivating Counterspaces in the Academy to Keep Black Motherscholars Safe. In Black Mother Scholarship Within and Beyond the Academy: Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity. Springer.
- Davis, D. L., Aaron, T., & Martinez, M. A. (2025). Black and Latina educational leaders’ motherwork: A reflection of identity, radical care, and collective love. Journal of Educational Administration, 1–16. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2025.2519315
- Davis, D. L. (n.d.). Always Becoming: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Programmatic and Personal Evolution. In Reimagining the Doctoral Educational and Community Leadership Program: Alignment for Future Frontiers of Learning Systems. Routledge.
- Davis, D. L. (2025). Mentor or Sponsor: The Key to the Balancing Act of Having a Family and Career. In Navigating Academic Motherhood: The Possibilities of Effective Mentorship for Tenured Faculty Mothers. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032651682
- Davis, D. L., Martinez, M. A., & Pena, R. M. (2024). Navigating quandaries and hard places: The impact of leadership dynamics on the career paths of three BIPOC women assistant principals. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589231221113
Featured service activities
- Member
Non-Tenure Line (NTL) PPS Creation Committee
- Member
Zinn Education Project: Teaching for Black Lives
- Member
Doctoral Admissions Committee
- Member
CLAS PPS Committee
- Member
Michael Abbott Scholarship in EDCL
- Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Educational Administration