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Kimberly A. Williams, Ph.D.
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Helping people with privilege know better, so we can do better.
I am both marginalized and privileged, so I totally get the necessity of navigating the harmful impacts of oppression while also coming to terms with my own complicity in maintaining those same systems and structures. I identify as a queer cisgender woman who is currently able-bodied and (not counting my debilitating student loan debt) middle-class.
The grandchild of Italian and probably Irish immigrants to the United States, I am one generation removed from the poverty and family violence with which my parents grew up, but I am grateful to have been raised on lots of love and lasagna in southern New England, in the lands of the Mashapaug Nahaganset. I am a white settler currently living uninvited in Canada's Treaty 7 Territory, in the hereditary and current homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Nations), the Îyârhe Nakoda, and Tsuut'ina Nations, and of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
I live with my transgender partner, a cat named Spike, an ancient Yorkie named G-Dawg, and a mini mystery mutt named Sunshine, with whom I climb mountains and play dog sports.
The grandchild of Italian and probably Irish immigrants to the United States, I am one generation removed from the poverty and family violence with which my parents grew up, but I am grateful to have been raised on lots of love and lasagna in southern New England, in the lands of the Mashapaug Nahaganset. I am a white settler currently living uninvited in Canada's Treaty 7 Territory, in the hereditary and current homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Nations), the Îyârhe Nakoda, and Tsuut'ina Nations, and of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
I live with my transgender partner, a cat named Spike, an ancient Yorkie named G-Dawg, and a mini mystery mutt named Sunshine, with whom I climb mountains and play dog sports.
