Chenzira Davis Kahina

Chenzira Davis Kahina

Chenzira Davis Kahina

Position: Immediate Past President (2022-2023)

ChenziRa Davis Kahina respectfully known as “Dr. Chen” is a co-founding director of Per Ankh (House of Life) ©, Per Ankh M Smai Tawi©, and Per Ankh Khamniversity Institute © supporting Culture, Health, Arts, Technology and Spirituality for Life, Inspiration, Freedom, and Education (CHATS4LIFE©). Davis Kahina is the CEO of AST Speaks consultancy; inaugural director of the VI Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands; and producer/director/writer/narrator of the ethnodocumentary Queens of the Virgins. Davis Kahina’s academic and intellectual research journeys include Rutgers, Pepperdine, UC San Diego, International University of Natural Sciences with certifications from other global institutions. Davis Kahina works collaboratively with interdisciplinary, socioeconomic-focused, Caribbean-centered organizations, and global alliances inclusive of: Caribbean Pan African Network; CARICOM Caribbean Reparations Commission; Afrakan Queen Mother Warriors©; VI Architecture Center for Built Heritage and Crafts; Toastmasters International™; Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus©; CaribAcademy©; Association of Naturopathic Therapeutics; Heritage Education Arts Legacy©; Society of Black Archaeologists; St. Croix Foundation for Community Development-NonProfit Consortium; African Views©; and other academic, sustainable, and humanitarian organizational developments. Currently she is a professor with the University of the Virgin Islands College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.