Shari (they/she) is the Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project. Their work is dedicated to transforming democracy to center building community power with community-led decision-making. SheThey joined the Participatory Budgeting Project after working for 15 years in local government. When she was the executive director of the Department of Youth Engagement and Employment for the City of Boston, she launched the first youth-led participatory budgeting(PB) process in the United States, Youth Lead the Change. 

Davis initially got involved in city government as a student leader in high school, serving as the citywide neighborhood safety coordinator on the Boston Mayor’s Youth Council. 

In 2019, she was honored with an Obama Foundation Fellowship for her work on participatory budgeting and in summer 2020 she delivered a TED Talk on the power of PB.