Bio:

of Houston, TX, is a junior at Smith College, where she has taken a leading role in student government as a student senator, member of the Smith Civil Rights Board and a leader of the Smith Leadership Conference. The first in her family to attend college, Davy is of Cambodian heritage. Her family escaped from the murderous Khmer Rouge Communist dictatorship by fleeing to Thailand in 1979, after four years of terrible hardships, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1981. At Smith, she says, as at many of America's most elite schools, "conservative or unpopular ideas are often stifled." Despite the institutional bias against conservative views, she is active in Smith's College Republican Club and has taken initiatives to bring fairness and balance to extracurricular and academic programs. Majoring in government, Davy aspires to become an attorney. She has served as a paralegal at the Federal Trade Commission and had a six-month internship at ABC News where she was a production coordinator for Nightline. "Because of my background, I cherish my freedom," she says. "My parents lived in fear and oppression& Similarly, I see that political correctness can also erode freedoms. In the end, I know that freedom is something that must be fought for" and she hopes to use her legal training to help others safeguard their liberties. This summer, she was an intern for the prestigious American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.

School: SMITH COLLEGE