Leon
Davis

Leon Davis is a community-based researcher, educator, and public health professional whose work bridges lived experience, trauma-informed practice, and public engagement. As a core member of Pillars of Promise, he contributes to the organization’s social relations and community outreach efforts, focusing on ethical engagement, relationship-building, and amplifying justice-impacted voices across nonprofit, academic, and cultural spaces.

 

Leon brings extensive experience in peer education, facilitation, and program development. He co-developed the Paths to Success therapeutic reentry program with Hudson Link and has served as a lead facilitator with the Alternatives to Violence Program. In Westchester County, he has also volunteered extensively with at-risk youth, supporting mentorship, emotional regulation, and pathways toward stability through trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches. Currently an ABA behavioral therapist, his work emphasizes dignity, trust, and long-term community accountability.

 

In parallel, Leon serves as a curatorial assistant at the Sing Sing Prison Museum, where he works with archival materials and historical artifacts to help interpret the lived realities of incarceration and its broader social and medical implications. Across all of his roles, Leon integrates community knowledge, historical inquiry, and public health practice to foster more humane, informed, and inclusive narratives of justice and rehabilitation.