17 Facts About Rowenna Davis

Rowenna Davis was born on 28 February 1985 and is a Labour Party politician.

Rowenna Davis is currently a councillor representing Waddon ward in the London Borough of Croydon.

Rowenna Davis has worked as a teacher and political journalist.

Rowenna Davis has previously been a Labour councillor for the London Borough of Southwark and contested the parliamentary seat of Southampton Itchen in the 2015 general election.

Rowenna Davis has written numerous articles for publications such as the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Sun and The Economist.

In 2011, Davis authored Tangled Up in Blue, an examination of the rise of the Blue Labour movement.

Rowenna Davis was born in Lewisham and spent her early years in Portsmouth and Catford before her family moved to North London, where she attended the comprehensive Hampstead School.

Rowenna Davis subsequently undertook a postgraduate MA degree in journalism from City University London.

Since graduating from Oxford University, Rowenna Davis has worked as an intern at Bloomberg News and as a freelance journalist, writing for publications such as The Guardian, The Independent, the New Statesman, the Mail on Sunday, The Economist, The Times, the Times Higher Education and the Financial Times.

Rowenna Davis has appeared as a political commentator for a variety of current affairs television and radio programmes such as Daily Politics, The Politics Show, Newsnight, Sunday Politics and Sky News.

In 2010, Rowenna Davis stood as the Labour candidate for the Cathedrals ward of Southwark, but lost to a Liberal Democrat candidate.

Rowenna Davis is an active member and supporter of several charitable, political and trade union organisations including Blackfriars Settlement, Crisis over Christmas, Headliners, Make Justice Work, National Union of Journalists and Unite.

Rowenna Davis lost to Conservative Royston Smith by 2,316 votes in the 2015 United Kingdom general election.

In 2019, Rowenna Davis put herself forward for selection as Labour's candidate for Croydon and Sutton in the 2020 London Assembly election but was not selected.

In June 2015, Rowenna Davis announced via Twitter that she was training to become a teacher and subsequently began working at Oasis Academy Mayfield in Southampton.

Rowenna Davis later taught English at Harris Invictus Academy Croydon.

The email account was provided by Google who Rowenna Davis felt were unhelpful initially.