#115, OTOH, Ryan Davis, Children International director, Part 1, 6 20 2025

April and Glen talk with Ryan Davis, Executive Director for Children International in Little Rock. Ryan is also a faith-based strategy consultant for the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and a Board Member of the Arkansas Public Policy Panel. In this first part of our interview with Ryan, he provides a summary of the work done by Children International and his role locally, which includes helping raise funding for educational and other interventions with children who need assistance. He traces how the influence of his family and early religious values led to his current views and help to motivate his work. Among his work through Children International is helping provide education related to social and emotional development in children. Given that some on the right object to this type of education, Ryan defends its role in the educational system and explains its importance in the healthy development of children with whom Children International works.