Producer: Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services
Window On Williams – Adam Foss ‘Swords and Shields, Power, Privilege, and Opportunity’
Adam Foss is the founder of Prosecutor Impact, a not-for-profit organization built around the mission of improving community safety in the United States through a better understanding of the most important actor in the criminal justice system: the criminal prosecutor. Adam is a former Assistant District Attorney in the Juvenile Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office (SCDAO) in Boston, MA, and a fierce advocate for criminal justice reform and the importance of the role of the prosecutor in ending mass incarceration.
Window On Williams – Leah Penniman ‘Farming While Black – African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice’
Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, (Petersburg, NY) speaks to the global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, & end food apartheid.
Window On Williams – Tracey Benson ‘Unconscious Bias in Schools’
Author Tracey Benson talks of critical race theory, racial identity development, unconscious bias in public education that perpetuate racism & institutional injustice as outlined in his new book "Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism."
