Jill Williams, Principal
Jill Williams has nearly 30 years of experience in the non-profit, educational, and philanthropic sectors as well as expertise in facilitation, strategy development, organizational capacity building, community organizing, and community-based oral history research projects. With a masters in conflict resolution and through her work as the executive director of the Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission, program officer at the Andrus Family Fund (part of the Surdna Foundation), coordinator for leadership initiatives at the Center for Social Inclusion, and director of the Accountability in Student Learning Program at New River Community College, she is uniquely positioned to support individuals, organizations and collaborative efforts in rural areas to undertake ambitious efforts that advance equity and opportunity for all.
For more information about Jill, see her c.v. here.
Select Publications
"Civil Society-Led Truth-Seeking Initiatives: Expanding Opportunities for Acknowledgment and Redress" - International Center for Transitional Justice with Eduardo González Cueva and Félix Reátegui Carrillo (April, 21, 2022)
"Finding Truth in Noah Thomas's Death" - The View from Peaks Knob (June 13, 2018)
"A Homegrown Approach to Student Success" - Community College Daily (January 11, 2018)
"Confederate Monuments, Pulaski, And Unanswerable Questions" - The View from Peaks Knob (May 31, 2017)
"How We Will Win the Middle School and Beyond" - The View from Peaks Knob (April 24, 2017)
"The Greatest Town in the World, But For Whom?" - The View from Peaks Knob (April 9, 2017)
"Where do we go from here?: Transportation Justice and the Struggle for Equal Access" - Southeastern Geographer, with Joshua Inwood and Derek Alderman (Winter 2015)
"Homemade Justice: Truth, Reconciliation and Decolonization in Maine" - Cultural Survival Journal, with Esther Attean (March 2011)
"Legitimacy and Effectiveness of a Grassroots Truth and Reconciliation Commission" - Duke University Law and Contemporary Problems Journal (2009)
"Truth and Reconciliation Comes to the South: Lessons from Greensboro" - Political Research Associates (April 1, 2007)