Nicole Davis
Nicole Davis is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and the founder and editor of Red Flag Magazine. She has a Master’s in Art History from New York University. She is also a recent graduate of the Eponaquest apprenticeship in Equine Facilitated Learning.
Davis made her break into journalism by reporting on contemporary artists. In 2006 Davis journeyed to rural China to produce a documentary on a nonprofit group bringing much needed medical care to Chinese citizens living below the poverty line. This was Davis’s second feature length documentary, but it was this journey, which culminated two months later in Japan, that broadened the scope of her work to encompass the problems facing local and global communities.
Since then she has produced and co-produced over 25 investigative short documentaries in 14 countries, mainly for Current TV. In tandem with her journalistic documentary work, Davis launched a web-based documentary series in 2007 called Artnet TV, to serve as a medium for the continuation of her work with contemporary artists.
The idea for Red Flag Magazine came to Davis after years of hearing her colleagues and contemporaries echo her own desire to change the world, in so many different ways, for the better. Yet however acute their collective desire may have been, none of them took significant action. She realized that what they were all lacking were the tools and the support of a community to really take action. Davis imagined that making changes for the better could become a way of life if supported by a dynamic and well informed social network – seeing herself as a work in progress also in need of the positive influence of a community committed to change.
Davis has supported the following nonprofit groups with her time: UNICEF, The Boys and Girls Club, The East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, The Happy Hearts Fund, New York Cares, Operation Walk, The Surfrider Foundation, and Good Hope Farm. She is the co-founder of the environmental nonprofit Root for Trees and a member of the Yoga Gangsters.
Davis currently cannot call one given spot her home, and as her homestead borders get wider and wider her love and accountability to the planet at large grows stronger.