Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  Adam Lebovitz, Director of the Center on Urban Development, at the University of Chicago's Launch Event Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." — Franklin Roosevelt    Kyra I Davis School: University of California, Berkeley Member of: Chapter Heads Core Chapters and Staff Democracy Week Executive Board Roosevelt Policy Expo 2006 Finance & Development Western Schools Contact info: Contact Email:  kyra(AT)rooseveltinstitution.org Policy interests: Disaster preparedness, Nonprofits and philanthropy, Political strategy Kyra Davis is the chapter head of the Roosevelt Institution at Berkeley.  Currently, she is completing her major in Rhetoric and minor in Public Policy.   Kyra got involved with Roosevelt in the summer of 2005, worked in corporate philanthropy, before getting involved with the chapter development at Berkeley.  During her time at Berkeley, she has also headed up John Edward's college service organization Opportunity Rocks and organized a trip for students to do relief work in Saint Bernard Perish. Last summer, she worked as a junior associate for George Lakoff's think-tank, The Rockridge Institute, and contributed to his most recent book Thinking Points. This summer, kyra was employed at Warnke Community Consulting, a unique firm that consults non-profits on issues related to city and regional planning, community building and internal capacity building.     The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359