Kalela Williams
Kalela Williams is a writer, arts administrator, and historian living in Philadelphia. For more than seven years, she has directed artistic, cultural and civic-engagement programming at the Free Library of Philadelphia, afters serving as Assistant Director of James Madison University's Furious Flower Poetry Center, a center devoted to the study of black poetry. Her writing, which has been most recently been featured on a BBC 4 program as well as in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature for Women, centers on stories rooted in African American history. Kalela leads African American history tours in Philadelphia, and she is a longtime member and current chair of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Young Friends Board. She is the founder of Black History Maven, a social media site and local events host.