Maggie grew up in Nebraska, daughter of a Methodist minister, Lawrence R. Davis, and Merna M. Davis. We met at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, NE. She has served the Nebraska Library Commission, Lincoln City Libraries, Bread for the World, and the Denver Hospice, to name a few. She has 2 masters degrees, of Library and Information Science from UCLA, and of Divinity from Iliff School of Theology, Denver. She is an ordained United Methodist minister, with a gift for chaplaincy.