Ronin Davis

Ronin is NACo’s senior program manager for behavioral health and justice. He is responsible for managing the portfolios aimed at informing, educating and assisting county officials across the country in their efforts to improve local justice and behavioral heath systems.

Prior to joining NACo, Ronin was a Senior Director at Seedco, a New York-based, national nonprofit where he was overseeing workforce development and economic stability programming for the New York office and leading operations efforts across the organization. Ronin also spent four years at The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center providing support to Second Chance Act grants around the country and eventually managed the Community Initiatives technical assistance team, which focused on the intersection of community-based organizations and criminal and juvenile legal agencies. Ronin currently serves on the board of the National Assessment Center Association and has been consulting on a project to develop policy guidance for states on how to better support children and families of the incarcerated. Ronin received his master’s in social work from Columbia University.