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10 QUESTIONS
with
STACY DAVIDSON
By Judith M. Wilson
A
s director
of Diversity,
Equity and
Inclusion at
Dominican
University
of California in San Rafa-
el, Stacy Davidson has the opportunity to encourage
awareness and understanding of others. She believes
her work to build an inclusive campus environment is
part of her spiritual journey: "I know this is where I'm
supposed to be."
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Did you ever imagine you would
have a career in California?
"This is my second go-round in California," says David-
son. She hails from Newport News, Virginia, and after
graduating with a degree
in psychology from the
University of Virginia,
where she was a first-gen-
eration college student,
she joined her brother
in San Francisco. "He
was doing the '80s thing
of finding himself," she
explains. She worked at Hills Brothers Coffee and MJB
Coffee, but then, "I had an aha moment at work one
day," and left to earn a master's degree in college stu-
dent personnel from Bowling Green University in Ohio.
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What attracted you to such
a degree?
"There wasn't a connection initially. I didn't even know it
was a thing," she says. Then she picked up a brochure
EAST COAST NATIVE IS DIRECTOR OF
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AT DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY
– Photo courtesy of Trinity University
