Dr. Dixie van de Flier Davis

 
About Dr. Dixie van de Flier Davis

Dixie van de Flier Davis, Ed.D. is the founder, President and Executive Director of The Adoption Exchange. For the past 28 years, she has provided vision and leadership for the agency.

An innovator and visionary, Dr. van de Flier Davis has influenced child welfare in the following ways: she was one of the originating partners and the Principal Investigator of The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids; she is a founding member and Past President of Voice for Adoption, a national advocacy organization;  and she has served as President of the national Adoption Exchange Association for 15 years.

Dr. van de Flier Davis recently published Adoption: Stories of Lives Transformed, where she recounts some of the joys and some of the heartbreaks from The Adoption Exchange’s twenty-five year quest to find forever families.

Dr. van de Flier Davis has received the following
accomplishments and awards for her work:

Lewis Hine Award
presented by the National Child Labor Committee, New York, 2011

William Funk Award for Building Better Communities
presented by the Colorado Nonprofit Association, 2011

William Funk Award for Building Better Communities
presented by the Colorado Nonprofit Association, 2011

IPPY, national Independent Publisher Book Award
for Adoption: Stories of Lives Transformed, 2008

Bronze Medal Winner for nonfiction, EVVY Award
presented by the Colorado Independent Publishers for Adoption: Stories of Lives Transformed, 2008

Denver Post Best Seller list

Adoption Excellence Award for Individual Contributions
Children’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2008

Child Advocate of the Year Award
presented by the North American Council on Adoptable Children, 2007

Wednesday’s Child Award
presented by The Adoption Exchange, 2003

Tower of Compassion Award
presented by Longmont Rotary, 2002