INTRODUCTION:
In the episode, Diverse host David Pluviose sits down with Dr. Wendi Williams, Fielding Graduate University's new provost and senior vice president.
Tune in as Dr. Williams shares how her experiences as a first-generation college student shaped the way she thinks about what it means to be an educator, educational administrator, and psychologist.
She shares how she plans to move the ball forward on important diversity issues and craft a student experience centered on health, wellness, and academic achievement.
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“My background certainly has placed me in the position of seeing systems and structures and institutions that were not working in my favor and were not working with or for me. So, it really puts me in a space of ‘what would it have looked like for it to work for me or to work for my friends’.”
