Kristen Davis

Kristen (she/her) grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in May 2025 with a B.A. in Political Science, Public Policy Leadership, and African American Studies. While at Ole Miss she served as a Legislative Advocacy Board Member tasked with presenting policy and legislative goals to government officials on behalf of the student body. She also served as the president of the Undergraduate Black Law Student Association where she initiated a donation drive to stock the first pantry of period products for women incarcerated in Mississippi. During undergrad she completed internships with the Center for American Progress and the Mississippi State Legislature.

Kristen’s scholarship focuses on the philosophy of punishment and prison abolition which are discussed in her publication “‘Vengeance Is Mine’: How Religious Southern White Supremacy Shaped the Prison Industrial Complex” and her undergraduate thesis “A World Without Prison: The role of policy in prison abolition.”

At Georgetown Law, Kristen is a member of the Abolition Advocacy Project E-board and hopes to expand her scholarship on prison abolition and the law. After law school, she plans to focus on prison litigation and movement lawyering to affect system-level change. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and hanging out with her cat, Bougie.