Dr. Williams is the President of Racial Justice Connection, Inc., a national anti-racism consulting organization. Dr. Williams served as the Founding Chair of the National Interreligious Commission on Civil Rights. She has taught at the University of Missouri, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Brandeis, and The Women’s Theological Center.

Dr. Williams notes that a connecting thread within her life, and the choices she has made, is curiosity about why it is that most people, most of the time, do nothing in the face of the enormous injustice/s. At the same time, there are those who courageously struggle for justice. Her research and consultant projects seek to advance the resiliency and community-views akin to those of the latter. As Director of the Department for Social Justice of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1980 - 1989, her understanding deepened about the "hope deficit" in today's society, and the need for institutional responses to this deficit as well as to the information deficit.

"Fifty years ago," she says, "many believed that people just didn't know that discrimination and oppressive conditions existed. Ignorance was the problem, and education and information were the answer." Dr. Gustavus Myers was one who said that information alone allows structural injustice to remain. The Myers Center today works with allies to co-create a more socially just world by education, organizing and action.