Dale Davis' career as a writer, educator, publisher, scholar, producer, dramaturge, and advocate for young people began as one of the founding poets of New York State Poets In The Schools. As a publisher she established The Sigma Foundation, a limited edition, private press with Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr., avant-garde filmmaker and publisher and editor of The Dial magazine, the leading modernist journal of arts and letters. The Sigma Foundation's books are in many permanent collections, including The Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University and The Collection of American Women at Smith College.

In 1979, she founded The New York State Literary Center (NYSLC) http://www.nyslc.org/ where she continues to serve Executive Director. Writers, editors, and artists who have worked with Dale Davis as integral contributors to NYSLC's programs included Homero Aridjis, William Bronk, Kenneth Burke, Robert Creeley, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Fitzgerald, Kamilah Forbes, Jonathan Galassi, Hugh Kenner, Ted Kooser, James Laughlin, Ruth Maleczech, Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Octavio Paz, William Stafford, Carrie Mae Weems, and Eliot Weinberger. Davis' belief in all young people expanded NYSLC's programs to reach students at the highest risk for educational failure. Today NYSLC serves the incarcerated through interdisciplinary, strength based arts programs.

NYSLC has published over 600 books of writing by young people, 30 children's books by incarcerated youth, and has produced thirty CDs. A NYSLC program was featured at the William Carlos Williams Centennial at the Harvard Club in New York for a Modern Language Association Convention. NYSLC's programs have been the subject of articles in New York Magazine and The New York Times, honored by The President's Committee on Arts and Humanities, The Center for Disease Control National AIDS Clearinghouse, the American Council on The Arts, The National Alternative Education Association, The National Dropout Prevention Association, the Annenberg School of Communication, Arts In Criminal Justice, and a documentary by Columbia University's EdLab. Her work with young people in the juvenile justice system in St. Louis was the subject of a Fox News Documentary. She was invited to participate in Harvard University's Institute on The Arts and Civic Dialogue, established by playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith. In 2014, she received the Andrew P. Meloni Award from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office for dedication and commitment to improve the education of those incarcerated through NYSLC's arts, education, and rehabilitation programs.

Dale Davis has lectured and conducted teacher education programs in Juneau, Alaska, Honolulu, Hawaii, the Mississippi Delta, and throughout the country. As a recognized expert on Youth Culture, she served as a consultant to ABC Network. She has presented papers on her work with young people at state and national conferences. Davis was a member of College Board's National Task Force on the Arts In Education, and she chaired a panel on employing arts learning with underserved populations to foster cultural understanding and unleash students' creativity to prepare students to tackle today's pressing issues at the College Board's National Forum, Education and The American Future. She served as a panelist for Massachusetts Council's first Creative Teaching Fellowships Program. She served as both an Education Panelist and Literature Panelist for The New York State Council on The Arts.

As an advocate for Teaching Artists, Davis was one of the founders of the Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) http://www.teachingartists.com/ in 1998. In 2006 she became the Association of Teaching Artists' first Executive Director where she continues to serve. She is in communication with Teaching Artists nationwide and consults on training and professional development for Teaching Artists. ATA now reaches over 5,000 artists and arts professionals weekly. In 2011, ATA became a national advocacy organization for Teaching Artists and convened the first national gathering of Teaching Artists, the Teaching Artists Forum, at the Center for Arts Education in New York City. Davis is a member of the National Board of the University of The Arts in Philadelphia.

Dale Davis' installations, combining the writing of young people and her own photographs, have been exhibited in several prominent venues. She has written 10 hip-hop theater pieces, adapted from the writing of the young people with whom she works that have been performed in juvenile justice facilities, prisons, and jails. Her writing has appeared in publications from The Iowa Review to Op-Ed in The New York Times. Recent publications include chapters in Unseen Cinema, Classics In The Classroom and columns in the online publication, The Bakery.

JULIANA MUNIZ received her BFA in Fine Art Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is currently finishing an MFA through the College at Brockport at Visual Studies Workshop. In her work in photography and video she uses the documentary approach to tell stories. In 2011 her documentary on North Clinton Avenue was included in the "Transitions Rochester" exhibit, an international collaboration that looked at the changing city of Rochester, NY, a former company town dealing with urban sprawl, new concepts of city planning, and high unemployment rates and poverty. In 2007 she documented homicide memorials in Rochester. She spent 2012 - 2013 as an intern with the New York State Literary Center.