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D. Nichole Davis is a personal injury attorney at McWhirter, Bellinger & Associates, P.A. in Lexington, South Carolina. Prior to joining the firm, she served as Risk Management Director at the South Carolina Bar and as Director of the South Carolina Supreme Court’s Lawyer Mentoring Program. She litigated child abuse and neglect cases on behalf of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, and she clerked for the Honorable Clifton Newman.

Nichole is a recipient of the 2023 South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Leadership in Law Award and the University of South Carolina School of Law 2018 Silver Compleat Lawyer Award. She is a member of Leadership South Carolina class of 2019, a member of the ABA Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy Class of 2019, and a member of the South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy Class of 2015. In 2016, she was named South Carolina Bar Young Lawyer of the Year.

She is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Professionalism, the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, the planning committee for the ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility, the South Carolina Black Lawyers Association, the South Carolina Bar Ethics Advisory Committee, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, the South Carolina Bar Professional Responsibility Committee, the Society for Diversity, Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honor Society, the South Carolina Bar Judicial Qualifications Committee, and the University of South Carolina Alumni Association.

Nichole is an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, a Certified Diversity Professional (CDP)®, and a certified family court mediator.

Kabrina Bass, Executive Director of Midlands Mediation Center.  She is an exceptional trainer in conflict management, leadership development, and overall communication theories and methods. Kabrina is a trained mediator, facilitator, and conflict practitioner. She earned a Bachelor and Master Degree in Religion and is currently working on another Master Degree in Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University.   Kabrina is a co-facilitator with USC Collaborative Race Project’s “Welcome Table” which strives to help communities understand the importance of listening, storytelling and relationship-building as prerequisites to producing real and measurable change.