Event Description

In Black Women at Work, Wendi S. Williams moves the conversation beyond the stubborn audacity of inequity, focusing instead on the powerful history and example of Black women's labor and refusal practices and on the potent role that choice and voice can play in dismantling seemingly impenetrable systems of unfairness. (From the book.)

About the Collaborator

Psychologist, advocate, and educator, Dr. Wendi Williams, applies her work at the intersection of education and psychology to her scholarship and leadership praxis.

In a career spanning two decades, Williams’ work delves into the contours of Black women and girls’ inner lives, leveraging deep knowledge of their interiority as source content for the development of culturally responsive educational and psychological interventions. Applying critical lenses of liberation psychology and womanist, Black, and intersectional feminist theoretical frames with an equity-centered systems power analysis, Williams develops and implements educational, wellness, and leadership intervention programming with individuals, groups, and organizations. Her work attends to the individual and organizational transformation required to foment the optimal growth and development of diverse women and girls, while attending to the organizational and societal systems-level change required for sustainable equity practice.