Rachelle Williams

Rachelle Williams is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and the Associate Director of the Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb Honors Program at Talladega College. She also serves as the Senior Class Advisor and the Advisor for Model UN. She earned a BA in History from Talladega College, an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MFA in Narrative Media Writing from the University of Georgia. She has spent much of her career as a college professor in the African American and Women’s Studies departments at the University of Maryland and teaching general arts and humanities courses to adult learners at the University of Phoenix. She has also served as an academic advisor and academic coach for college and K-12 students.

Williams is a former contributing writer for East City Art, an online magazine that covers visual arts events in the metropolitan Washington, DC, area. Her writing has been featured in two editions of the anthology CONFLUENCE: Two Rivers, One City, the DC region’s annual publication of compelling critical writing on art. Williams serves on the Reading List Committee for the national book club Go On Girl! and is a certified instructor of Kathleen Adams’ Journal to the Self through the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver, Colorado.