Katie Davis was born on November 1, 1989, in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee. She was raised in relative wealth and was the homecoming queen in her high school. She had originally planned to study nursing in college, but during her senior year of high school, she took a missionary trip to Uganda that changed her life. Ever since she was a young girl, she wanted to help those born into less fortunate circumstances than herself. In Uganda, she worked with orphaned or abandoned children who were sick, malnourished, and she instantly knew that after high school she wanted to return to Uganda to help even more. By the age of 20, she had moved to Uganda, adopted 14 little girls, and started Amazima, a successful nonprofit organization that sponsors the education of Uganda’s neediest children.

Davis’s faith is integral to her mission. She believes that adoption and serving the poor are two commands that God has given His people. As she feeds, clothes, and provides educational and medical care to the neediest children of Uganda, she believes that she is revealing God’s heart. She is also a firm believer in the idea that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty; this is why her nonprofit, Amazima, focuses on paying the school fees for Uganda’s most impoverished children.