Dessima Williams, currently a professor of sociology and Caribbean studies at Brandeis University, was a leader in Grenada’s New Jewel Movement and served as her nation’s ambassador to UNESCO and to the Organization of American States. Since the US overthrow of Grenada’s legitimate government, Dessima has remained active in the peace movement, as a feminist and as an intellectual and organizer for a more just world order. She is founder of the Grenada Education and Development Program. She is also co-founder of HAITIwomen and a vice president of OXFAM America. She was a delegate to the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995. In addition, she is co-chair of Massachusetts Action for Women, which was launched to implement the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
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