Bio:

Dr. Rebecca Davis has 15 years experience in international social work and international development, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe. She lived and worked in Romania for 10 years, initially going on a Fulbright to teach social work ('92-'94). After that she worked on a number of different United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded projects in civil society development and international education with World Learning.  From 1998-2002, she was the Director of the Child Welfare and Reform Protection Project, a $6.3 million USAID project granted to World Vision to reduce dependency on child institutionalization by piloting community care programs.  Since returning to the US, she has completed a comparative country study on the evolution of community based services in the Former Soviet Bloc countries. She is a consultant on child welfare reform to Save the Children/UK in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Prior to her international work, Dr. Davis worked in various clinical, management and educational positions in North Carolina. Dr. Davis received her Master of Social Work in 1974 from UNC/Chapel Hill and her Doctorate in Child and Family Studies  in 1983 from UNC/Greensboro. She holds clinical social work licenses in New Jersey and North Carolina.