Interview with Samara Davis, November 17, 2021

Project: Bourbon in Kentucky: Women in Bourbon Oral History Project

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In this interview we discuss Samara Davis's early childhood growing up in the greater LA area, her experiences and exposure to the arts scene through her mother, her family's history as entrepreneurs and attendees at historically black colleges and universities. We discuss her educational experiences in private schools in California and in higher education in Florida, and her early career in arts administration and working for a variety of health-related non-profits (American Diabetes Association), etc. We begin to discuss the formation of the Black Bourbon Society in 2016, and some of its early signature events.

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2021oh0945_bikw0023

Interviewee Name

Samara Davis

Interviewer Name

Janice W. Fernheimer

Interview Date

2021-11-17

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Davis, Samara Interview by Janice W. Fernheimer. 17 Nov. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Davis, S. (2021, November 17). Interview by J. W. Fernheimer. Bourbon in Kentucky: Women in Bourbon Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Davis, Samara, interview by Janice W. Fernheimer. November 17, 2021, Bourbon in Kentucky: Women in Bourbon Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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