L. Joy Williams is a political strategist and founder of LJW Community Strategies, a boutique government and public affairs firm based in New York. Ms. Williams has been featured on BET, Pacifica Radio in New York and Los Angeles and is a frequent contributor on NY1’s Inside City Hall, NewsOne.com and The Brock Report. She is also News Coordinator and co-host of the widely popular podcast Blacking It Up! and serves as a strategic advisor to elected leaders and organizations across the country.

Widely recognized as a highly effective asset, Ms. Williams has served in a variety of career-defining positions. She began her career in politics as a Field Volunteer for the McCall for Governor campaign in 2002, served as Campaign Manager for New York State Assembly Member Karim Camara, a GOTV Supervisor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Kerry/Edwards 2004 Presidential campaign, the Election Supervisor for Pacifica Foundation/WBAI Radio in New York, was a special assistant to former New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and a program assistant at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy and advocacy organization. Ms. Williams served as deputy director of community relations to former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson and went on to become Thompson’s political director in his 2009 mayoral campaign.

Ms. Williams is founding Chairman of Higher Heights for America, 1st Vice-President of the Brooklyn NAACP, National Board Member of PAC+ and serves on her local community board as a resident of Bedford Stuyvesant.

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