Rachelle L. Williams is the Director of the Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb Honors Program and an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Talladega College. Williams earned a BA in History from Talladega College, an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MFA in Narrative Media Writing from the University of Georgia. Her research and scholarship focus on Black Women’s art and culture, African American history and culture, representations of race and gender in popular culture, and gender politics in hip-hop and jazz.

She has taught in the African American and Women’s Studies departments at the University of Maryland and has taught general arts and humanities courses to adult learners at the University of Phoenix. She has also served as an academic advisor and coach for college and K-12 students. As a former contributing writer for East City Art, an online magazine covering visual arts events in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, her writing appeared in two editions of the anthology CONFLUENCE: Two Rivers, One City, the DC region’s annual publication of critical art writing. Williams serves on the Reading List Committee for the national book club Go On Girl! and is a certified instructor of Kathleen Adams’ Journal to the Self through the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver, Colorado. She is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.