Easton Davis

Easton Davis is a healing-centered educator, researcher, and community builder whose work bridges academia, embodiment, and collective care. A doctoral candidate in Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University, Easton’s research explores how Black educators experience and navigate teaching about race and racism within higher education, drawing from Audre Lorde’s concept of radical self-care. His practice blends scholarship with movement—offering community boxing sessions as a tool for metabolizing racial stress and reclaiming the body as a site of healing.

Easton’s work is grounded in a vision of education that centers wholeness, joy, and liberation. He brings to every space a deep commitment to human flourishing—cultivating environments where people can unlearn harm, move through grief, and reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies. Through an approach informed by feminist theory, critical race studies, and somatics, he invites students and communities alike to engage healing as both theory and practice.

Through the Acosta Institute Fellowship, Easton hopes to deepen his exploration of healing-centered pedagogy and connect with others who see education as a space for renewal and transformation. He is particularly interested in bridging movement, research, and spirituality to design experiences that support Black educators and communities in metabolizing racialized trauma while envisioning new, liberated futures rooted in care.