Coffy Davis
Coffy Davis
Oakland native, Coffy Davis resides in Little Rock, Arkansas. Coffy is an award-winning Author, Activist and Educator. She attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and obtained a degree in English and Technical Writing. She has won awards for her memoir, MEdusa: Reflections of an Angry Black Girl.
In 2004, Coffy created the Underground Railroad Neighborhood project (T.U.R.N. project) an organization that bridged art and literacy with marginalized communities. To bridge the literacy gap, she promotes an annual LIT Rock Book Festival for historically excluded readers and writers.
The Women and Girls a community awareness initiative that provides victim services, builds coalitions, develops programming that centers Black women and girls and brings awareness to the uprise in gun violence specifically intimate partner violence (IPV), in the community. Her organization collects data, host community baby showers, provides violence prevention summits, mental health awareness training and many other opportunities to learn and combat community violence.
Coffy partners with other organizations in a community awareness initiative that provides victim services, builds coalitions, develops programming that centers Black women and girls and brings awareness to the uprise in gun violence specifically intimate partner violence (IPV), in the community. Her organization collects data, host community baby showers, provides violence prevention summits, mental health awareness training and many other opportunities to learn and combat community violence. Coffy partners with other organizations in
cities across the U.S. to address IPV.
Her work has been featured in local and national media including The Washington Post, The Guardian and Nashville Voyager.
Coffy began her holistic health journey as a means for healing the trauma in herself and her community. She has been a vegan for 5 years. She is a certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor with a background in Restorative yoga and she's a fitness instructor for the City of Little Rock.
She's an avid biker and loves to create spaces for marginalized communities impacted by health disparities.
In 2021 she began partnering with the John Cain Foundation to bring the Rasta fun run/walk 5k to the central Arkansas area every October.