Focusing on Wellness and Equity with Caroline Randall Williams

Wednesday, December 16, 3 PM EST

Click below to view the recording of this webinar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Ns_zUWHZ4&feature=youtu.be

Museums celebrate, preserve, and catalogue the human condition, its history, its accomplishments and its art. And it follows then that we must be concerned with the people behind these museum worthy artifacts, their ways of being, their wellness, their lived experiences.  Wellness and equity are intrinsically bound. Systems and organizations cannot be fully well if they are not fully equitable. It is the happy privilege of this talk to be able to frame this conversation within the museum world.

About the presenter:Caroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre writer, educator, performance artist in Nashville Tennessee, where she is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. She is co-author of the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook Soul Food Love. Her debut collection of poetry, Lucy Negro, Redux has been turned into a ballet by the Nashville Ballet — Caroline performed her poetry as an integral member of the cast, all set to an original score by multiple time grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens. Named by Southern Living as “One of the 50 People changing the South,” the Cave Canem fellow has been published and featured in multiple journals, essay collections and news outlets, including The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, CherryBombe, Garden and Gun, Essence and the New York Times. Most recently, she was ranked by The Root as one of the 100 most influential African Americans of 2020.

Special thanks to the Kress Foundation for their generous support in this series.