Sharice Davids. Photo: Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation

Ho-Chunk citizen Sharice Davids named as White House fellow

Sharice Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, is joining the new class of White House Fellows.

Davids most recently served as deputy director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a non-profit that works on economic development projects on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. She's also an attorney, an entrepreneur and a mixed-martial arts enthusiast.

"Thank you for everything you've done for our organization and for everything you'll do in the future for Native people across the country," Thunder Valley CDC wrote on Facebook.

As part of the Fellows program, Davids will be broadening her knowledge of leadership, policy formulation, and current affairs. She'll be taking part in community service projects during her time in Washington, D.C.

Biographical information, provided by the White House, follows:
Sharice Davids, Rapid City, SD, served as the Deputy Director of Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation in Porcupine, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where she managed a variety of day-to-day operations, acted as in house legal counsel, and laid the foundation for a social enterprise program. She is from the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin, and has dedicated her professional life to economic development in Native American communities. In 2010, Sharice began her legal career in the Kansas City office of an international law firm as a corporate transactional attorney working on mergers and acquisitions for private equity clients and economic development transactions with Native American tribes. After leaving corporate practice, Sharice moved to the Pine Ridge Reservation where she took a position with a high school as the Director of an Economic Development Initiative where she developed an entrepreneurship curriculum that was implemented at the high school level. After the development of the entrepreneurship program, Sharice started Hoka Coffee Company. Sharice received a B.B.A. from the University of Missouri in Kansas City and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. She is an avid martial artist and has competed at the amateur and professional levels in mixed martial arts.

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