Earth Our Only Home, Inc.
About Us: Clydia A. Davenport
About Us: Clydia A. Davenport
Clydia A. Davenport
Co-President, Earth Our Only Home, Inc.
A descendant of Pocahontas, Clydia was born an environmentalist – it was,
after all, in her blood. Originally from New Orleans, Clydia clerked for
another Big Easy native, the then newly elected District Attorney Harry
Connick, Sr. while at Loyola Law School. Later she ran her own law firm for
15 years, handling mostly cases involving construction defects and
advocating for consumers to assure contractors’ work met or exceeded
acceptable standards.
Clydia spent much of the 1990s using her experience as a lawyer fighting to
preserve the great wetlands of that region. She put considerable effort
into lobbying and eventually suing the governor at the time and the Army
Corps of Engineers on the grounds that draining wetlands for
"development" would insure the destruction of New Orleans the next time a
hurricane set its sights on the region. Despite her best efforts her pleas fell
on deaf ears. No longer able to continue living in a place she knew would
one day be under water, Clydia packed her bags in 2001 and set her sights
on Boston.
Relocating to Boston, America’s most walkable city, enabled Clydia to give
up dependence on the “ever polluting automobile,” as she says. As an
added advantage, Boston is steeped in history and dedicated to learning.
It is also located in Massachusetts, the state she considers to be always
decades ahead of the rest of the nation and striving to be politically correct.
Never one to give mere lip service to environmental issues, Clydia has
recently donated 65 acres of pristine wilderness located in the Ozarks in
northwest Arkansas to The Nature Conservancy. The land had been in her
family since 1933 and she donated it so that it could be preserved in
perpetuity, forever available to the endangered Ozark big-eared bat.
Clydia’s education includes a B.A. in French & English from St. Mary's
Dominican College in New Orleans and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Before launching Earth Our Only
Home, Inc., Clydia was the Program Manager of Making Music Matters!, an
entirely privately funded instrumental music program in two Boston public
elementary schools. Under her management, funding of the program was
secured for the next five years even while expanding from two to three
schools and from 4th and 5th grades to include 3rd grade as well.
Her daughter, Sophie, serves as Clydia’s inspiration to keep fighting for the
protection and preservation of the planet that she and her siblings around
the world will one day inherit.
Co-President, Earth Our Only Home, Inc.
A descendant of Pocahontas, Clydia was born an environmentalist – it was,
after all, in her blood. Originally from New Orleans, Clydia clerked for
another Big Easy native, the then newly elected District Attorney Harry
Connick, Sr. while at Loyola Law School. Later she ran her own law firm for
15 years, handling mostly cases involving construction defects and
advocating for consumers to assure contractors’ work met or exceeded
acceptable standards.
Clydia spent much of the 1990s using her experience as a lawyer fighting to
preserve the great wetlands of that region. She put considerable effort
into lobbying and eventually suing the governor at the time and the Army
Corps of Engineers on the grounds that draining wetlands for
"development" would insure the destruction of New Orleans the next time a
hurricane set its sights on the region. Despite her best efforts her pleas fell
on deaf ears. No longer able to continue living in a place she knew would
one day be under water, Clydia packed her bags in 2001 and set her sights
on Boston.
Relocating to Boston, America’s most walkable city, enabled Clydia to give
up dependence on the “ever polluting automobile,” as she says. As an
added advantage, Boston is steeped in history and dedicated to learning.
It is also located in Massachusetts, the state she considers to be always
decades ahead of the rest of the nation and striving to be politically correct.
Never one to give mere lip service to environmental issues, Clydia has
recently donated 65 acres of pristine wilderness located in the Ozarks in
northwest Arkansas to The Nature Conservancy. The land had been in her
family since 1933 and she donated it so that it could be preserved in
perpetuity, forever available to the endangered Ozark big-eared bat.
Clydia’s education includes a B.A. in French & English from St. Mary's
Dominican College in New Orleans and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Before launching Earth Our Only
Home, Inc., Clydia was the Program Manager of Making Music Matters!, an
entirely privately funded instrumental music program in two Boston public
elementary schools. Under her management, funding of the program was
secured for the next five years even while expanding from two to three
schools and from 4th and 5th grades to include 3rd grade as well.
Her daughter, Sophie, serves as Clydia’s inspiration to keep fighting for the
protection and preservation of the planet that she and her siblings around
the world will one day inherit.
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Photo courtesy of
Roofscapes, Inc.
Roofscapes, Inc.
| All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. --Chief Seattle, 1850s |