Johnetta G. Davis

May the love of friends and family carry you through your grief.

Dr. Davis provided guidance and advice to so many UMD graduate students. She was a mainstay of support for so many. She will be sorely missed.

Across a River of Light and into the arms of the ancestors, strides Dr. Johnetta Garner Davis. I don't know what work awaits her on the other side but I know the resume she brings is short, accurate, honest. It reads: "I was the magic." Black students who spent substantive time at PWIs often do so under the grace of a small column of faculty and administrators, owing to their guidance, and in lucky apprenticeship. The black graduate students who cycled through College Park in the 90s and...

I worked for Johnetta in the graduate school at the University of Maryland. Her mentorship is the reason I´ve thrived in academia. She was as beautiful on the inside as on the outside- Fly high magnificent angel

Dr Johnetta Davis was my Speech Major professor at DC TEACHERS College . She was Brilliant Teacher with a warm sense humor and empathic but also on POINT! I will truly miss her.