Joe Davis is a nationally touring artist, educator and speaker based in Minneapolis. He is the founder and director of production company the New Renaissance, the frontman of the Poetic Diaspora, and qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory. He has keynoted, facilitated conversation and served as teaching artist at hundreds of high schools and universities and as the artist-in-residence at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., where he received a Master of Arts degree in Theology of the Arts.