Ashley Davis
Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Social Work
Ashley Davis is a researcher interested in anti-racism in social work practice as well as teaching and learning in social work education. Her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Social Work Education, Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work and Advances in Social Work. In October 2019, she was the featured guest on the inSocialWork Podcast, produced by the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. In the episode, titled “Only Liberal Views Welcome?,” she shared unexpected findings from her nationwide study of students’ experiences of microaggressions in Bachelor of Social Work programs.
“We are not a value-neutral profession,” she explains. “We are socializing students to advance social justice, and there’s no one right way to do this. We can learn a lot from each other about the different ways we can advocate for marginalized populations.”
Davis is active in the profession as an accreditation site visitor for the Council on Social Work Education and co-chair of the National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts Symposium program planning committee. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work and on the board of consulting editors for the Journal of Progressive Human Services.