Aimée Eubanks Davis
Founder and CEO Braven.org
- Chicago IL
Speaks to higher education outcomes, particularly related to job attainment and quality among first-generation and low-income students.
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Accomplishments
Obama Foundation Fellow
The Obama Foundation Fellowship supports outstanding civic innovators from around the world in order to amplify the impact of their work and to inspire a wave of civic innovation. The program itself is a two-year, non-residential program that offers hands-on training, resources, and leadership development to equip Fellows to scale the impact of their work.
Luminary, The 1954 Project
2018
Female Innovator of the Year Silver Stevie Winner
2018
#13 on Essence Magazine’s 50 Black Women Founders to Watch List
2017
Education
Mount Holyoke College
B.A.
1995
Affiliations
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
- Civic Committee of the Commercial Club
- St. Mark United Methodist Church
- The Links, Inc.
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- English
Media Appearances
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Partners With Braven to Support the Career Pursuits of Promising Undergraduate College Students
Business Wire online
2022-03-14
“We are so excited and grateful to embark on this partnership with BHSI. Our collaboration will open the door to valuable mentoring and careers around the globe with a dynamic company that is part of the world-class Berkshire Hathaway brand,” said Aimée Eubanks Davis, Braven Founder & CEO.
Through family foundation, ex-McDonald’s CEO adds education as focus in helping entrepreneurs
Chicago Sun Times
2021-04-14
The CAFE aims to provide financial and capacity-building support to Black nonprofit leaders in education, to accelerate their impact — leaders like Aimee Eubanks Davis, founder and CEO of Braven, Inc., of Chicago, who is among the recipients.
Higher Education and Work Amid Crisis
Inside Higher Ed online
2020-06-16
Doubts among lower-income Americans about investing in a college education are understandable, particularly during this time of crisis, said Aimée Eubanks Davis, founder and CEO of Braven, which works with San José State University and three other colleges and universities around the country to help underrepresented students transition from college to jobs.
A 'Braven' New World: Connecting First Generation College Students To Amazing First Jobs
Forbes online
2019-08-22
According to an eye-opening study from The Brookings Institute, students from low income backgrounds earn, on average, 66 cents on the dollar of their higher income peers. These numbers are personal to Aimée Eubanks Davis, the Founder and CEO of Braven.
New group of Obama Fellows includes local woman who works to close college-to-job gap
Chicago Tribune online
2019-04-30
While Aimee Eubanks Davis was growing up on Chicago’s South Side and in the south suburbs, college was emphasized as a pathway to better pay, a stable career and an overall healthier life.
But years later, when she was working with college students from nontraditional backgrounds, Davis noticed many of them were finishing school, sometimes with stellar grades and accomplishments — yet were struggling to find jobs.
Articles
OPINION: The odds are still stacked against low-income college students; here are some ways to expand the possibilities
The Hechinger Report2019
Growing up on the south side of Chicago with parents who spent 75 cents of every dollar they made on my college education, I still took out loans to graduate from Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and I know all too well how high the stakes are for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
