Dr. Davis has an extensive background in nonprofit museum management, education, and fundraising. Most recently, Dr. Davis was Principal of the nonprofit strategic consulting firm DRMD Strategies, LLC and former President and CEO to two Iowa organizations: the Dubuque County Historical Society and the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. He is the former President and CEO of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee. Prior to the Zoological Society, Dr. Davis was Vice President of Education for Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo.

Dr. Davis has a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine (Tuskegee, Alabama) and a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science and Biology from Tuskegee Institute and University. He is a Board member of the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) and also a Board member and former Vice Chair of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM).

Her high school years are bookended by national protests against apartheid education (1976 and 1980 student revolts). She completed her undergraduate studies (B. A) and her Higher Diploma in Education (HDE) at the University of Western Cape (UWC) when the university was a hotbed of resistance to apartheid in the 1980s, her Honours in Education (B.Ed.) at the University of Cape Town. In fulfilment of a Master’s Degree with the University of Pretoria, she completed a research project on life histories of women clothing workers from District Six, before, during and after Apartheid forced removals. She taught at high schools in various working class communities for 15 years prior to working as a whole school facilitator in the Extra-Mural Education Project (EMEP). She also has experience as a trade unionist in the education sector from 1986.

One of the Founders of Forum Pour La Memoire Vigilante, he is the director of Education, Leadership and Peace Studies in the Forum. Having experienced how leaders with no vision led to chaos in his region, he also founded Sensitive Servant Leadership Ministry (SSLM),  a platform that promote character building in schools, train and coach  leaders to serve not to be served, to listen to people and attend their needs sacrificially.  He organized many seminars with the objective of making and raising leaders of integrity. With a Master degree in Transformational leadership and a Master degree in Journalism, he wrote two books: Military Coup and Political Intransigence as Sources of disenchantment in Post-colonial Africa (2005) and La Presse Publique Pendant la Periode Electorale (2013) and many articles on leadership and good governance.  He is a teacher of strategic management and a consultant in Transformational Leadership. In December 2019, he was invited to speak at a Conference of “men in Uniform'' in the Philippines about how to raise leaders of Integrity. He is married to Jacqueline and they have three children. 

When it was discovered that security forces were responsible for the bombing, Gunn filed a civil court case charging defamation and won a settlement for the trauma she and her son endured. She went on to testify about her experiences to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa (TRC), and is now the Director of the Human Rights Media Centre, a Coalition member in South Africa that advances human rights through the collection and dissemination of victims’ narratives. She has partnered with the Coalition multiple times over the years, leading body-mapping workshops in Liberia (2010, 2012), Kenya (2012), Uganda (2016), as well as Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Sri Lanka (2017). 

In Rwanda, with the Revolution of 1959, the Tutsi are exterminated and others forced to exile, a state of racism is put in place The establishment of Hutu power. Hutu extremist movements take charge of the fight against “Tutsi domination”. The Interahamwe militias groups are set up and supervised/trained by the government in place. Racist political parties. Hate speech linked by state radio stations