People – Advisory Council

Advisory Council

The Just Futures Advisory Council at Williams College was established in February of 2022 in order to invite knowledge and direction from community members, activists, and scholars across the Northeastern region and beyond. Advisory Council members are helping move the grant work forward to productive ways that reflect the most urgent and needed priorities.

Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptise, W.E.B. DuBois Center, UMass-Amherst
Isaiah Blake ’21, Ascend Public Charter Schools, NYC
Ralph Brill, Brill Gallery Productions
Phacelia Cramer ’19
Ahmad Haynes Green ’16, Harvard Divinity School
Paul Gallay ’81, Columbia Climate School
Ayami Hatanaka ’18, New York University/JMACFORFAMILIES
Katy Hall, Williams Mystic
Jallicia Jolly ’14 Amherst College
Barbara Krauthammer, UMass Amherst
Kyle Mays, UCLA
Mary McNeil, Tufts University
Jaelon Moaney ’19
Chief Dwaine Perry, Ramapough Lunaape Nation Riverkeeper Board
Jasmine Seydullah, Vassar College
Ernest Tollerson, Hudson Riverkeeper Board
Rebecca Ann Wilcox, Princeton Seminary

Land Acknowledgment

We respectfully acknowledge that Williams College stands on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, who are the Indigenous peoples of the region now called Williamstown. Following tremendous hardship after being forced from their valued homelands, they continued as a sovereign Tribal Nation in Wisconsin, which is where they reside today. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.