Nicole Williams (she/they) is an educator, advocate for justice, equity, diversity, inclusion & belonging (JEDIB), speaker, curriculum developer, professional development trainer, coach, community collaborator, and consultant. Nicole uses her platform to build a story of change with others, addressing the root causes of economic, racial, and social injustice. Understanding that change takes time, but that there is always time for the change envisioned. 

 

Meditation and reflection have played a significant role in recent considerations for how she, as someone who holds intersecting marginalized and privileged identities, can best seek to co-create or co-nourish spaces of love, appreciation, and change in a society and world which is socialized towards the very opposite. One such space is the Mt. Airy Community Fridge & Pantry. Deeply impacted by this ongoing work and connection with community members, Nicole is further spurred to put action to the words that she has long read, written, and spoken. A circular storyteller, her stories are transforming to deeper action research and praxis. 

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Nicole uses theoretical models and conceptual frameworks based in justice and equity to provide education and professional development in a variety of content areas including leadership, justice & equity, wellness, and strategy for personal and organizational transformation. Nicole finds stories riveting, and the personal narratives of each individual an important means to move away from constructing assigned boxes and categories on people, and creating space for themselves (both seen and unseen) to be valued. They use their voice to take up space and secure seats for themself and others, very much acknowledging that sometimes the tables and chairs do not always exist and must be built; therefore working to build legacies which move from sustainable environments of JEDIB to liberation.