OUR TEAM

Patricia Williams is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School. She began her career practicing law as a consumer and health law advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and as a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles. Upon leaving practice, she served on faculties of the University of Wisconsin School of Law, Harvard University Women’s Studies Program, and CUNY Law School at Queen’s College, and is Professor Emerita at Columbia University. At present she serves as University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University, with appointments in both the school of law and the department of philosophy.

In 1997, she delivered the annual Reith Lectures, the BBC’s highest honor in radio journalism. She has authored hundreds of chapters, essays, book reviews, and articles for journals, popular magazines and newspapers, including her award-winning column, “Diary of a Mad Law Professor,” and books such as The Alchemy of Race and Rights. She has served on many boards, including the Council for Responsible Genetics, Wellesley College, Medgar Evers College, Conjunction Arts, Studio In A School, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Society of American Law Teachers, and the Sarah Parker Remond Center at University College London. In 2000, Williams was awarded a MacArthur Genius Fellowship.