The Prairie Landscape

People Involved: The Meaning of Service (MoS)

Adam Davis is the lead facilitator and coordinator of The Meaning of Service (MoS), a social-justice oriented seminar series for AmeriCorps volunteers; an instructor in The Odyssey Project; the Executive Director of Camp of Dreams, a non-profit organization providing year-round programming for underserved 9-15 year olds in Chicago; and a Research Associate with the Project on Civic Reflection. He is the co-editor of The Civically Engaged Reader (2006). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2003), his M.A. from Boston College (1996), and his B.A. from Kenyon College (1993). He has spent several years as a lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Chicago and a backcountry trail crew leader for the United States Forest Service.