About Wendi Williams

Wendi S. Williams, PhD, is the provost and senior vice president of Fielding Graduate University and co-chairs the national board of Girls Leadership, an organization that equips girls with the skills to exercise the power of their voice. She is the author of Black Women at Work: On Refusal and Recovery and WE Matter!: Intersectional Anti-Racist Feminist Interventions with Black Girls and Women. Her podcast, She(Been)Ready!, amplifies the leadership legacy of Black women by mining the leadership strategies nestled in Black women’s (and other diverse leaders’) narratives. Her current work articulates leadership pathways for women and girls across diverse contexts and backgrounds and has informed the promotion of health and well-being among youth, their families, and the educational and mental health practitioners who work with them.

OPINION: Donald Trump’s Never Ending Legal Woes Puts NY Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis In The Line Of Fire

2023-04-13T17:51:08-07:00

What more can we expect from the man who has a documented history of disparaging Black women? (L-R) New York Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County GA District Attorney Fani Willis. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images and Photo by David Walter Banks) Two Black women are leading the way to hold Donald Trump accountable—and he is using every trick in the book to discredit them. While this is the behavior people have come to expect from the former president, his actions actually reflect the tragic and historical treatment of Black women in the workplace in this country. And [...]

OPINION: Donald Trump’s Never Ending Legal Woes Puts NY Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis In The Line Of Fire2023-04-13T17:51:08-07:00

A Winter Break Message From Provost Wendi Williams, Ph.D.

2023-01-03T06:59:26-08:00

To dream, to rest, to turn away from the toxicity of grind culture are radical acts of love for ourselves and our culture. I often speak about how naps will not save you if you are still upholding anti-Blackness, white supremacy, ableism, and patriarchy. All these things are the opposite of love and care. We cannot to continue to dream up new ways of being while still supporting systems of domination. We can’t simply talk about the hopes of a world centered in justice while we continue to exhaust ourselves and each other and remain in allegiance with grind [...]

A Winter Break Message From Provost Wendi Williams, Ph.D.2023-01-03T06:59:26-08:00

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