Pascale Ife Williams

Pascale Ife Williams is a Black queer spirit-led cultural organizer, disruptor, healing justice practitioner, space holder. A Chicago native with over 15 years of experience in justice-driven arts and community-engaged work that explores and expands racial, gender, and wellness equity. She seeks to engage communities through imagination, strategic visioning, and Black queer abolitionist cultural praxes. Former Visiting Faculty in the Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Current Senior Engagement Fellow at the Terra Foundation.

Her biological and chosen tribe are most precious to her. Kamari, her young child and all her nibblings are a constant source of humility, inspiration, and laughter.