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Dr Shardé Davis is an Afro-American academic who created the hashtag #BlackintheIvory, which was popularised on Twitter in the wake of widespread protests against the death of George Floyd.

Early Life
As an undergraduate, Davis attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she earned a B.A. in Communication and Feminist Studies and an M.A. in Communication. At UCSB she was funded through the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, and awarded the Steven H. Chaffee Undergraduate Research Award from the Department of Communication. Davis completed her doctoral studies in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa.

Career
Dr. Shardé M. Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and a faculty affiliate of the Africana Studies Institute and the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) at the University of Connecticut. Her research examines the way Black women leverage communication in the sistah circle to invoke collective identity, erect and fortify the boundaries around their homeplace, and backfill the necessary resources to return to white/male dominant spaces in American society. These ideas have been published in over 30 peer-refereed articles and invited book chapters, and are best represented in her article, 'The “Strong Black Woman Collective”: A Developing Theoretical Framework for Understanding Collective Communication Practices of Black Women'. Her research was formally recognized with the 2018 American Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Association of University Women and the 2019 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

#blackintheivory
Davis established the hashtag #BlackintheIvory in June 2020 with Joy Woods, a graduate student at the University of Texas-Austin. The hashtag, which was used on Twitter, was designed to be a forum to amplify the voices of “Blackademics” to speak truth about racism in academia. It went viral in the United States and across the world, with Times Higher Education identifying it as a 'tidal wave' of 'black scholars' sharing their lived experiences of discrimination and alienation' at higher educational institutions. As of October 28, 2020, there was 9,790 followers of the Twitter account. Since creating #BlackintheIvory, Dr Sharde' Davis has been featured in several media interviews and podcasts to share her views on the intersections of racial and academic identity.

Awards
In 2018, Davis was recognised at the 100 Women of Color Gala, presented by June Archer and Eleven28 Entertainment.

Selected Publications

 * Afifi, Tamara, Walid Afifi, Anne F. Merrill, Amanda Denes, and Sharde Davis. “‘You Need to Stop Talking About This!’: Verbal Rumination and the Costs of Social Support.” Human Communication Research 39, no. 4 (2013): 395–421. https://doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12012.
 * Afifi, Tamara D., Sharde Davis, Amanda Denes, and Anne Merrill. “Analyzing Divorce from Cultural and Network Approaches.” Journal of Family Studies 19, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 240–53. https://doi.org/10.5172/jfs.2013.19.3.240.
 * Davis, Shardé M. “The ‘Strong Black Woman Collective’: A Developing Theoretical Framework for Understanding Collective Communication Practices of Black Women.” Women’s Studies in Communication 38, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 20–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2014.953714.
 * Afifi, Tamara, Sharde Davis, Anne F. Merrill, Samantha Coveleski, Amanda Denes, and Walid Afifi. “In the Wake of the Great Recession: Economic Uncertainty, Communication, and Biological Stress Responses in Families.” Human Communication Research 41, no. 2 (2015): 268–302. https://doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12048.
 * Afifi, Tamara D., Anne F. Merrill, and Sharde Davis. “The Theory of Resilience and Relational Load.” Personal Relationships 23, no. 4 (2016): 663–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12159.