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  • Antoinette Ellis-Williams
  • New Jersey City University, Women's & Gender Studies

Dr. Antoinette Ellis-Williams is Chair and Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at New Jersey
City University where she teaches: Women, Hip Hop Spoken Word & Social Change; Women &
Leadership; Race, Class, Gender Activism; Diversity & Difference; Black Womanhood. Dr. Ellis-
Williams is a Jamaican born multi- media abstract contemporary artist, and poet. Her new work BURN: Identity, Reality and Healing Black women just presented “BURN Phase 1 Installation/Origins & Activism” Solo Pop-Up Show, Akwaaba Gallery. Other recent exhibitions include, CLIO Art Fair, “The Art of Protest”, New York City; “The 2021 NJ Arts Annual ReVision & Respond”, Newark Museum; Neopoprealism Press, THIRD PLACE WINNER International Online Competition; “Into the Light” Art in the Atrium Virtual Exhibition; “Works on Paper”, Long Beach Island Foundation’s 23rd annual National Juried Exhibition. Juror, Lanka Tattersall, Curator of Drawings and Prints at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art. She is a playwright and actor of Scarf Diaries. Ellis-William’s documentary Lee Hagan: Connecting Generations (2016) won best short documentary at the Newark Black Film Festival. Her TedX Talk Finding Justice in the Land of the Free (2015) tried to unpack her immigrant status in America. She is the author of Black Gardenias: A Collection of Poems, Stories, & Sayings from A Woman’s Heart (Semaj Publishing, 2013). Dr. Elis-Williams is a minister. She is a member of the board of trustees for the New Jersey Institute of Social Justice and Women@NJPAC. Ellis-Williams earned her Ph.D. in Public Policy & Urban and Regional Planning, Cornell University.

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