Davalos is an Afro-Puerto Rican-Mexican, Atlanta Native, based in New Orleans. Her practice began in the Americana Deep South. She attended HBCU, Savannah State University, where she studied Vocal Performance. Yashi’s curatorial research centers socio-cultural epistemology, the south and the global south, through an interdisciplinary arts praxis.

Yashi was the 2023-2025 curatorial fellow and interim grants and awards coordinator at The Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. She was previously a member of collective run gallery The Front New Orleans.

Recent curatorial projects include: 2025 exhibition, SOMA at TubeFactory Artspace (Indy, IN), Geometrica: Pop y Rucas (2025) and Allegories of Inertia (2024) at The Charlotte Street Gallery, Echolocation (2023) and Past, Present, and Futurism (2022) At The Front New Orleans.

Davalos has designed and facilitated programming in collaboration with various institutions including Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Prospect New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, UMKC Music Conservatory, and MDW Artist Coalition. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans, ATL, KCMO, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic. Yashi’s writing has been published via Sixty Inches From Center, Burnaway, and Intervenxions at Latinx Project NYU.