1. Salish Davis
salish.davis@gmail.com 6609 SE Woodstock Blvd #287
(858) 437-3321 Portland, OR 97206
Experience
BIRTH SUPPORT| FAMILY BIRTH SERVICES| 2014
· I worked as a doula aka birth supporter (pre-labor,labor, post-partum birth support) for a Portland midwife’s
private practice. I have taken many trainings and workshops on doula and reproductive justice work including
an Abortion Doula workshop by the Bay Area Doula Project. Additionally I have taken an 8-week doula and
lactation support training and escorted at an abortion clinic in Portland.
FOSSIL FREE FELLOW| 350.ORG| SUMMER 2014
· As my first paid organizing job, funded through 350.org,I worked for Forest Ethics in Bellingham, WA for
three months of the summer. I helped tocoordinate a national week of action against oil train transport in
dangerous DOT-111 train cars with a message of ‘Keep it in the Ground!’. I attended a weeklong intensive
training in Minneapolis on power dynamics in the fossil fuelindustry,movement history, anti-oppression,
direct action tactics, and strategic campaign planning.
STUDENT CULTURAL EVENTS PLANNER | REED COLLEGE | 2013-2014
· I negotiated,organized, and synthesized a fullyear of calendar events for a campus of more than 1,400 people
with over 20 large campus-wide events.I shared leadership responsibilities with one colleague and a
supervisor to contact entertainment firms and independent organizations. For events I arranged allcontracts
and travel plans with both the lecturer and their agent. I independently assembled and managed a team of
workers for many on-campus events, prominently a dinner and lecture with both Carl Bernstein and Max
Brooks.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT | REED COLLEGE ANTHROPOLOGYDEP’T | 2012-2013
· I conducted research,complied database information, assembled the results and discussed their implications
for a variety of Reed Anthropology professors. I synthesized academic articles and constructed course blogs,
syllabi, and readings.Further, I have worked alongside Reed professor LaShandra Sullivan independently
seeking articles, art pieces, and literature for her personalresearch on agro-business in Brazil.
RESEARCH INTERN | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, NAIROBI KENYA | SUMMER 2013
· I spent two weeks assisting peer mentors at an HIV clinic in Kenyatta hospital, the largest in East Africa,
conducting publichealth research and talking with patients. I also interpreted and synthesized what I learned
in a peer mentor handbookfor future employees and interns.
YOUTH PROGRAMS DEVELOPMENT INTERN| SI SE PUEDE SOCIAL SERVICES | SPRING 2014
· I worked to develop after school youth programs for predominantly Latino and Somali youth by expanding the
opportunities available to the program through funding,attention, and partnerships. I developed databases of
potential grants for Si Se Puede and applied when appropriate.I developed partners,such as NW Outward
Bound and the Portland Art Museum,to help facilitate programs or provide activities for youth along with
maintaining social media pages to promote the program. The goal was to make a sustainable program that
would be able to be repeated in the future.
STUDENT ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZER| REEDCOLLEGE| 2012-2015
· During my time at Reed I have been a student leader in several campaigns including divestment from fossil
fuels, working against new free trade agreements, and beginning a student-led herbalapothecary.I have
honed my leadership skills in facilitating weekly meetings, webinars, regional networking, learning about
conflict resolution, and organizing large teams of people for demonstrations. Most excitingly, I coordinated
efforts to present our findings on divestment to the Reed Board of Trustees, compiled a press release, and
wrote articles surrounding the event.
ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK COFOUNDER| REED COLLEGE| 2013-2015
· At Reed I cofounded an abortion support network in response to a lack of institutional support around IUD
insertions and abortions. The network was designed to anonymously share stories through a binder available
at various points on campus. A directory links students together based on related experience experiences (e.g.
POC, previous abortion, abusive partner etc),and allows them to contact each other to go to clinical visits
together or to just talk.
COLLECTIVE MEMBER| CASCADIA ABORTION COLLECTIVE| 2014-2015
· After a training two summers ago through the Bay Area Doula project, the radical doula community in
Portland rallied around creating a collective designed to support abortions for those who might need it most.

2. Members in the collective provide in-home support, clinical direct service, and support continued training in
the Northwest doula community.
Skills & Abilities
· Spanish speaker, proficient with Microsoft Suite, rudimentary understanding of Adobe Suite, conflict
resolution, strategic campaign planning, Anti-Oppression trained through the Anti-Oppression Resource and
Training Alliance, social change theory and movement history trained at 350.org, birth and abortion Doula
trained, grant writing, press releases, research and information compilation, time-sensitive organization,
extensive events planning.
Education
B.A. | SPRING 2015 | REED COLLEGE
· Major: CulturalAnthropology
· Thesis: I wrote my thesis on the reproductive injustices enacted towards undocumented women in ElPaso, as
they birth at independent birth centers.I attempt to show that immigration law and the border are not
objective facts but are products of an exclusionary, racist and gendered history in the Southwest. I was
awarded a grant from Reed to shadowmidwives at a birth center and shelter that serve undocumented
mothers in El Paso in winter 2014.
References
I will gladly provide references by request.