Who We Are

Equity Centered LLC provides consulting services that equip clients with the mindset and tools to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism (DEIA) within their sphere of influence. By empowering organizations with the structure, processes, skills, and DEIA-literacy needed to disrupt inequity, we build capacity, not dependence, for organizations to create equitable and inclusive spaces and have long-term success.

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Our Founder

Aside from our Founder, our team consists of highly qualified and motivated professionals who have the expertise to provide comprehensive, authentic DEIA services to our clients.

Dr. Andrea Davis (she/her/Dr.)

CEO | Principal Consultant

Dr. Andrea Davis is a DEIA trainer/educator and organizational justice practitioner specializing in equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and the U.S. criminal legal system. She is the founder and CEO of Scholarly Pursuits LLC and Equity Centered LLC. Scholarly Pursuits is a culturally-proficient educational consultancy that helps people of the global majority get into and through college and graduate school. Equity Centered is a boutique consultancy that provides solutions to equip individuals and organizations with the mindset and tools to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism within their sphere of influence and become active anti-oppression accomplices.

Dr. Davis earned her Bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) in criminal justice from Alabama State University and her Master’s degree and PhD in criminology (race, gender, and crime) from the University of Florida. Her technical expertise is in research design, research methodology, and data analysis, and she uses these skills most prominently within the context of conducting equity assessments, developing survey instruments, and conducting program evaluations. Dr. Davis has completed two prestigious data analysis fellowships at the National Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Statistical Institute at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

She has previously worked for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General, where she was an integral part of two groundbreaking projects, one that analyzed gender equity in DOJ’s four law enforcement agencies and another project analyzing inmate-on-staff sexual harassment at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. For this work, Dr. Davis received the Special Achievement Award from the DOJ Inspector General as well as the Equal Opportunity Employment Award from the U.S. Attorney General. In addition to these specific awards, Dr. Davis has been widely recognized throughout the federal government and academia for her expertise on the intersection of race, gender, and advancing organizational equity.

Over her 13 year career, Dr. Davis has assisted government agencies, non-profits, and other organizations both small and large with embedding equity throughout their enterprise. Clients have expressed that working with Dr. Davis has given them the awareness, thinking, intention, and tools necessary to understand the complexities of DEIA and begin making conscious decisions grounded in equity.

Differentiators

We think through the "unexamined spots" in organizational culture and develop small-scale strategies to shift clients to large-scale organizational systems change.

Award winning team members recognized throughout the federal government, state governments, and academia for their DEIA leadership.

Expertise in anti-oppression and anti-racism.

Holistic approach to our work, recognizing the importance of individual change, interpersonal relationships, and examining how systems function through policies, culture, and power dynamics.

Our Vision

-For DEIA to be embedded into the DNA of all organizations

-A world where people can experience their greatest quality of life regardless of whom they love, where they live, where they work, how much money they make, and what they look like

Location

Based in the metro-Washington DC/Baltimore region and virtually

Available for clients globally

Contact Email

andreadavis@equitycenteredllc.com

Land Acknowledgement

Equity Centered LLC humbly acknowledges that we are headquartered on the unceded lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock people. We recognize the enduring presence of more than 7,000 indigenous peoples in Baltimore City, including the Piscataway, Lumbee, and Eastern Band of Cherokee community members. We aim to hold ourselves and the local community accountable to tribal nations.