Katie Davis is a Washington DC writer and a 25-year veteran of public radio. “Neighborhood Stories,” her ongoing series of audio essays, appears on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and PRI’s “This American Life.” Her essays are included in You Are Here: Personal Geographies (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004) and the forthcoming Reality Radio (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Davis has received fellowships from the McDowell Colony, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts. She is the founder/director of The Urban Rangers Youth Corps that gives kids “tools for life” in Adams Morgan.