Julie Davids is Co-Director at the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), after serving as the group's founding Executive Director and Senior Consultant. On behalf of CHAMP, she coordinates the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA), a national network of over 70 groups building a unified, effective movement for HIV prevention in the United States.

Davids is a two-time past co-chair of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) (and continues to serve on its Convening Group), is a founding member of the Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy, and serves as an advisor to the U.S. Positive Women's Network. She also is an External Expert advisor to the Strategic Working Group of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH.

After learning the ways of hell-raising from the leaders of ACT UP Philadelphia in the first-wave HIV/AIDS direct action protest movement, she stuck around the all-volunteer direct action group for the next 14 years. During that time, Davids worked on campaigns for needle exchange, health care access, research issues, and the rights of people of all genders, and served as a community advocate in the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). She helped to start Project TEACH (Treatment Education Activists Combating HIV), which provides activist and leadership training for people living with HIV at Philadelphia FIGHT.

Davids was the first community organizer for Health GAP, an activist group dedicated to eliminating barriers to access to HIV/AIDS treatment around the world. She founded CHAMP in 2003 after a year-long Charles H. Revson fellowship at Columbia University, where she developed an analysis of the history and future of HIV/AIDS as a social struggle tied to economic justice, racial justice and human rights.

In her local community of Cranston, RI, she serves on the board of the Providence Youth and Student Movement (PrYSM), non-profit Southeast Asian youth-led organization whose vision is end all forms of violence, whether they come from the self, the community, or from institutions and systems.