Washington Informer

Louis C. Davis, Jr., has been named AARP DC Senior State Director.  In that position, he will lead a state team in establishing AARP as the champion for people 50+ in the District of Columbia. Davis formerly served as the AARP District of Columbia’s Legislative Affairs and Advocacy Director.   

Davis joined the AARP DC staff in January 2006 with more than a decade of political outreach and grassroots organization experience in the District.  Previously, he was a senior project manager for World Vision, where he managed the strategic planning processes, and development of a new vision statement for this international organization operating in over 80 countries.  He has also served as an Appropriations Assistant/Senior Legislative Support for U.S. Representative José E. Serrano of New York.  His awards include the National AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families, for his 1993 legislative work to fund treatment and research for women, infants, children and youth through Title IV of the Ryan White CARE Act, the nation’s largest federally funded program for people living with HIV-AIDS.  Before coming to the District, Davis worked in the office of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. 

Davis holds a BA in political science from Knox College and a Master of Public Administration from The George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. He has been a volunteer for ten years at the Children’s National Medical Center here in the District. 

Davis was accepted into the 2008 class of Leadership Greater Washington (LGW), a professional networking association of regional leaders, and was elected to represent his class on the LGW board of directors for 2008-09.