Kalela Williams

Kalela Williams is a writer, an educator, and a historian. She is the Director of Writing at Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia-based organization that hosts writing workshops for young people, and she recently concluded almost a decade of public programming with the Free Library of Philadelphia, where she directed their One Book, One Philadelphia program and other literary initiatives. She is also the founder of Black History Maven, a social media and in-person gathering community. Kalela grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and currently calls Philadelphia home (Photo by Carlton Melton, TakeOne Imaging).

Learn more at Kalela Williams’s official website.