Elizabeth Davis is an emergency management consultant focusing on inclusive emergency management, marginalized population planning, disaster human services, and related issues through her firm EAD & Associates, LLC, which employs a holistic, client-focused approach to providing quality services and real-world solutions.
An accomplished public speaker, Davis is considered one of the nation’s “go-to” sources on the convergence of emergency management and disability access and functional needs. She began in public service at the New York City's Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities as assistant to counsel and senior policy advisor. She later became the first director of the National Organization on Disability Emergency Preparedness Initiative. Davis is an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sits on many research review boards and serves on several national advisory boards, including as an appointed voting member of the National Advisory Committee on Disability and Disaster to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the chair of the National Hurricane Conference Accessibility and Health Care Topic Committee, and first chair of the International Association of Emergency Managers Accessibility Committee. Over the years, she has received many awards and honors for her work. Davis is an inaugural inductee into the International Women in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Hall of Fame.
Davis received her juris doctorate and Master of Education from Boston University, with a degree in the socio-bicultural study of deafness and American Sign Language. She holds an undergraduate degree with a major in sociology and a minor in political science from Barnard College at Columbia University.