ABOUT THE EVENT

Dr. Wendi Williams is a leader who studies the ways Black women have led over time. She researches the ways Black women carve out pathways for their leadership and the ways in which Black women’s positionalities are necessary for expanding leadership possibilities for ALL people. In her work, Dr. Williams asks what can be learned from the life experiences of Black women in life, love, and relationship to inform their liberatory leadership.

One year after the release of Dr. Williams book, Black Woman at Work: On Refusal and Recovery, we’re hosting this virtual fireside chat to learn what she’s discovered, how readers have responded, and which of her prescriptions for change have been affirmed.

Join us for the first of what will be an annual conversation on The State of Black Women at Work. 

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Dr. Wendi Williams bridges practical wisdom with scholarship to make research from and about Black women and girls accessible to them. For decades, she has grounded her work in the experiences of everyday folx, ensuring that the sense made of their lives in the halls of academia aligns with who they know and understand themselves to be.

Dr. Williams’ work lies at the intersection of education and psychology, ensuring that institutions, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates have the capacity to care for the actual human being in front of them, rather than caricatures informed by racism, (hetero)sexism, and ableism that have long justified colonial extraction of human beings for capital gain.

Dr. Williams completed undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis where she majored in Psychology and minored in African and African American Studies. She completed graduate study at Pepperdine University (MA in Psychology) and Georgia State University, where she earned a doctorate in Counseling Psychology.

Tickets

$25 - General

$15 Students and Seniors