Sonja Williams

Sonja Williams is a professor of communications at Howard University, as well as an award-winning writer and producer of features and documentaries for National Public Radio (NPR), Public Radio International (PRI), the Smithsonian Institution and radio stations nationwide. She has worked as a journalist and media trainer in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. For three consecutive years, Williams received one of the broadcast/cable industry’s most prestigious honors, the George Foster Peabody Award for Significant and Meritorious Achievement. Williams’ book, Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom was published by University of Illinois Press in 2015.