About
Dr. Sherri Williams
Dr. Sherri Williams is a race and representation researcher who teaches about how media images are connected to and uphold oppression and inequality. Williams, who was a journalist for a decade before entering academia, teaches journalism and media studies courses that examine how race, gender, class, sexual identity, ability, age and body size are portrayed in mass media. Williams believes that storytelling can be a tool for liberation.
Join the #RepresentationRevolution
In this book, Sherri Williams explores the digital activism of the Black social TV audience, a subset of Black Twitter. In addition to demands for social equality and shifts in social justice, Williams argues, the Black social TV audience advocated for a representation revolution in television, leading to some shows being blocked from airing, some being taken off the air, and others even being revived.
Dr. Williams’ Work
Writer
Sherri Williams believes that storytelling can be used as a tool for liberation. She became a journalist because as a teenager in the 1980s she mostly saw news stories of Black people connected to crack, crime and chaos.
Professor
Dr. Sherri Williams is the assistant professor in race, media and communication at American University in Washington, D.C.
Speaker
Williams is an energetic and engaging speaker who does keynote speeches, lectures, workshops, seminars and leads conversations for audiences ranging from small academic groups to large corporations.