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Williams graduated from Morehouse College, earning a B.A. in business administration with a concentration in banking and finance. His corporate career includes serving as president and CEO of the Akron Urban League; Habitat for Humanity of Michigan; interim executive director with Summit Education Initiative; deputy executive director and chief operating officer with Alpha Phi Alpha Homes; Ford Motor Company; and 20 years with Nissan North America. During his time at Nissan, he created Nissan North America亚洲色吧檚 Minority Dealer Development Initiative, which significantly increased minority dealer representation.

He is a highly regarded local, regional and national community leader with a wealth of experience in board development, parliamentary procedure and protocol, organizational development, and strategic planning and system change. His expertise extends to organizational transformation, fiscal management and plan implementation. He has a proven track record in preparing organization governance documents and is well-versed in corporate and Christian leadership, education and ecumenical organizational structures. Though his leadership roles include serving on boards, he is often found serving the community亚洲色吧檚 youth, reading to kindergartners, registering voters and training teenagers to become community leaders.

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The 2025 Civil Rights Lecture is sponsored by the college亚洲色吧檚 Center for Diversity and Inclusion, the Cultural Affairs Committee, Culture and Inclusive Excellence, multicultural student organizations and GROW Collaboration, and will be taking place as part of the college亚洲色吧檚 annual Civil Rights Celebration week.  The week honors all persons and groups who have worked toward the advancement of civil rights and social justice, and is organized in conjunction with the national commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., at the corner of College Avenue and 12th Street.