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You can access Jonathan Matthew Williams’ CV at this link.
HUSTLE Winston-Salem is a campaign coordinated in conjunction with the Community Innovation Lab, convened by Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, and the Winston-Salem Foundation. Williams along with a team of local entrepreneurs organized, collected, and shared stories from diverse entrepreneurs in an effort to understand how race, class, and power impact entrepreneurial opportunity and to promote a more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem in the local community.
Date completed: April 2016 - Present
Medium: Experience/Organizational Design, videography
Date Completed: September 2012
Medium: Video Documentary, experience design with print and web development
Faces of Courage was a yearlong series of events designed to encourage discussion, bring people together and honor those who helped Wake Forest University become the first major private university in the South to integrate. Under the leadership of Williams, the Faces of Courage campaign focused on important historical events and looked forward to the continuing evolution of the University’s broader support of racial and ethnic diversity, religious pluralism, service to those with disabilities, and acceptance of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Events included speakers, a screening of an original documentary about the integration, panel discussions, cultural festivals, a civil rights bus tour, a diversity and inclusion symposium, and much more.
“You move forward, and there will be setbacks, but you must continue progressing. You cannot be discouraged.”
It’s Time to Spring into Action for Black Women was Williams’ TEDx talk following a year-long research study of Twitter rhetoric produced by the Black Lives Matter organization to understand how they discuss and engage state-sanctioned violence against cisgender and transgender black women. The results suggest the organization embraces people from across the sexual and gender identity spectrum as demonstrated in their online advocacy and offline social action. Williams’ TEDx talk focused on broadening the world’s understanding of how black women and girls and other identities are included in the narrative of state-sanctioned violence and through an enhanced knowledge of the systemic realities and hardships impacting the entire black community, we are better equipped to develop holistic solutions for remedying anti-black racism.
Date Completed: December 2016
Medium: Design research, oratory
The Leadership Project was an initiative designed by Williams to engage members of the community with inspiring stories from leaders with various viewpoints and different perspectives to expose constituents to the wide range of leadership qualities and styles that others have found successful so they may choose the best fit for themselves. Participating leaders included Chris Paul, Nancy Lublin, Charles Best, Donna Edwards, and Eboo Patel.
Date completed: March 2013 - April 2018
Medium: Experience design with video, web and print production
