Alexandria Davis

Alexandria Davis is a PhD Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and APSA Diversity Fellowship recipient studying political science at UCLA with a concentration in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. She recently served as the Graduate Mentor and Lecturer for an undergraduate Black Politics course for the UC-HBCU Sawyer Summer Institute. Her research interests are Black political behavior, presidential elections, intersectionality, and political psychology. Specifically, her dissertation focuses on crafting a theoretical framework and measure of Black voter apathy as an emotional experience specific to Black voters that decreases Black voter turnout and investment in other methods of political engagement.