Joanna Williams

Originally from Clarksville, Tennessee, Joanna Williams most recently worked as the New Media Associate for the Southern Poverty Law Center with their Teaching Tolerance project. She studied at Western Kentucky University where she graduated with a degree in Liberal Arts. While there, she worked for four years at her school’s independent student newspaper, the College Heights Herald, serving as their spring 2014 editor in chief. As a Bonner Leader, she worked as a Program Assistant at the ALIVE Center for Community Partnerships and assisted in furthering the development of programs such as The $100 Solution™ and the Student Ambassadors of Service.

Field placement: Dreaming Out Loud

Washington, D.C.

Policy placement: National League of Cities

Washington, D.C.

Hunger Free Community Report

Urban Agriculture as Activism: A Guide for Community Organizers is a guidebook that details how community residents can turn urban agriculture spaces into hubs for community organizing. Using the Dreaming Out Loud Garden and Dix Street Garden in DC as case studies, the guide explains how food sovereignty principles are tools for community empowerment.