Justine Williams
Associate Director of Operations and Outreach, ARPC
CAS | Antiracist Research and Policy Center (ARPC)
Degrees
PhD, Cultural Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BA, Cultural Anthropology, George Washington University
Bio
Justine is a cultural anthropologist with a background in advocacy, program design, and non-profit leadership. She has served previously as Managing Director for the Atlantic Fellows Platform for Innovation and Dialogue with Cuba, Land Justice Coordinator for Food First, and Research and Policy Analyst for Food & Water Watch. While completing her doctoral studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, she was involved in numerous community-engaged research projects and initiatives around food, economic, and racial justice in North Carolina before moving to Cuba to conduct ethnographic research together with rural communities. She is editor of the volume Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States. Justine concurrently serves as the Managing Director and Co-founder of CARE LAB, where she works with a bipartisan group representing half the Senate to support care-based leadership and reduce hate and polarization. Before joining ARPC, she was the inaugural Assistant Director at AU’s Center for Environment, Community, and Equity. Justine lives in D.C. and is mother to two small humans.
