Joy Lawson Davis has over 40 years of experience in gifted education as a teacher, administrator, writer, researcher & consultant to schools worldwide. Davis is currently an independentconsultant, author, and Instructor at Johns Hopkins University in MD and Bridges Graduate School in CA. Davis previously taught courses in Gifted Education, Teacher Education and Diversity Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and VA Union University. Dr. Davis is a native of Virginia. As a practitioner, scholar and writer she has focused her work in advocating for increased attention to the needs of diverse gifted students, in particular African American students and their families. Davis has published widely and is a graduate of The College of William & Mary in Virginia. In the past, Davis is now served for 5 years on the Board of Directors of National Association for Gifted Children and is a member of the Advisory Board of Gifted Child Today, a practitioner oriented peer-reviewed journal with the largest subscription base of any gifted journal nationwide.