Filmmaker, Writer, Entrepreneur

Kiri Davis knew from an early age that film was a medium she wanted to work in. Through her films she's found a way of expressing herself as well as telling the stories that are important to her. Davis began her career as an entrepreneur creating and selling specialty items and later designing her own jewelry line. She now continues to express her love of art through a variety of mediums including film. She has directed several short films including her first documentary A Girl Like Me, which she made at age sixteen.

Since 2005, the film has received numerous awards including the Urban League Guild: "Vanguard Award," Hampton Film Festival "Golden Starfish Award," and The Media That Matters "Diversity Award." A Girl Like Me has also been featured in over twenty film festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival and has screened worldwide. It is one of three films chosen as a finalist in the Cosmo Girl film contest. The winner will receive a $10,000.00 cash prize.

Davis, now eighteen has recently been named by Ebony Magazine as one of "The Ebony Power 150 Most Influential Blacks In America," is being presented with the "Racial Justice Award" by the National YMCA in April 2007, and has been chosen to receive the 100 Black Men of America's "Outstanding Youth Award for Broadcast Media" in June. She frequently lectures and participates in numerous panel discussions to further explore the issues raised in her film. She has been featured in articles in a host of magazine including Jet, Ebony, and N.A.A.C.P'S Crisis Magazine. She has been featured in numerous news articles throughout the U.S as well as internationally.

Recently Davis was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN's Paula Zahn Now, The Today Show/Headline News, Good Morning America, ABC World News, and Sharp Talk with Al Sharpton. Additionally she has been a participant on various national radio shows, including the Steve Harvey Morning Show and National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation.

Davis continues to pursue a career in filmmaking as well as explore her passion for other forms of communication, including writing, photography and acting. Her goal is to develop more projects that will help her community and give a much-needed voice to issues that pertain to people of color. Davis lives with her mother and she will graduate in April 2007 from Urban Academy, a New York City public high school.