Davis, Ophera: - Dr. Ophera A. Davis is an author, independent scholar, and twenty-year affiliate faculty member who has taught in African studies and psychology departments at colleges in Boston. She earned a bachelor's and master's degree from an HBCU, Jackson State University, and her PhD is from Saint Louis University. Dr. Davis's first article on Hurricane Katrina survivors was published in the Harvard Journal of Public Policy. Professor Davis has given talks on Hurricane Katrina survivors internationally at Oxford University, and in China, Australia, and Africa. Dr. Davis grew up in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest areas in America.