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Amy Davis has dedicated her life to the education
and spiritual development of young women and men. She
was recognized as a leader in the areas of academics,
spirituality, languages, and sports in her undergraduate
studies at Grove City College. There, among other
honors, she was awarded membership in Omicron Delta
Kappa, a national leadership honorary. After achieving
her degree, Amy moved to Asuncion, Paraguay, where she
taught kindergarten and second grade, and had her first
opportunity to speak publicly in Spanish. Her passion
for international students began with these young
children, and continued as she taught ESL in the United
States.
Thinking she had left teaching behind when she began her
Master of Divinity studies at Alliance Theological
Seminary, her first semester found her tutoring, and
halfway through her degree, she taught her first college
class. This developed into a fulltime position as
Instructor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Nyack
College. A pioneer in her field, Amy is the first woman
to be hired as a fulltime instructor of Bible and
Theology since the institution’s founding in 1882. In
the classroom, she is able to combine and exercise all
those characteristics that are uniquely her – music,
drama, writing, and speaking – she is superbly fit for
this position. She has been named in both “Who's Who
Among Students in American College and Universities,”
and “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.”
Outside of the classroom, she consistently mentors
students, acts as a spiritual director, and facilitates
various college mission trips. These trips have taken
her to Costa Rica and Ecuador, and in May of 2007, she
will travel to Indonesia to do both physical and
spiritual relief work.
Currently, Amy is working on a PhD in Liturgical Studies
at Drew University; she will complete her course work in
2007, and her goal is to complete her degree in 2009.
Once her current work on rites of passage for women is
completed, she hopes to publish it, and thus empower
women through teaching and ritual. She presently resides
in Nyack, New York. |
Character
is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The
shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real
thing."
