Amie S. Williams

Amie S. Williams is an expert on gender justice in media, youth activism, women and girl's rights, media education, how to run an international NGO, documentary filmmaking, effective storytelling for grassroots organizations and non-profits, social media platforms and new journalism,etc.

Williams is a filmmaker, journalist and activist with a passion for telling stories from the margins. Armed with little more than a camera and backpack, she traveled the world inspired by legions of women, workers, immigrants, refugees and outliers, always looking for the untold story. But never has she been more inspired and driven to tell these stories than now, in an era where responsible, authentic intersectional and female-forward storytelling is needed.

In her work, Williams has always been dedicated to taking a personal look at the idea of conflict, borders, gender relations, cultural and political divisions and the effect these issues have on individual relationships, families, and communities. Much of her work has focused on women. Her films, such as STRIPPED AND TEASED: TALES FROM LAS VEGAS WOMEN, NO SWEAT and WE ARE WISCONSIN have won awards in film festivals and were broadcast on PBS, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC, and Swedish TV. Williams is a 2015 Film Independent Fellow for her screenplay Jua Kali, about a Kenyan Aids orphan, and her latest screenplay, Journey of Winter and Summer was recently sold and is being produced in 2019 in Tunisia. She was selected in 2018 to be one of “50 women Who Can Change Media and Entertainment,” a think tank/cohort dedicated to fighting for gender parity in media, as well as an active member of Women in Film, Alliance of Women Directors, Film Powered and Film Fatales. Williams has taught film production in Japan, Singapore, SFSU, UNLV and UCLA.

But she is most proud of founding and running the non-profit organization, GlobalGirl Media, which empowers young women from marginalized communities to find and develop their voice. GGM supplies the equipment, education and support necessary to help young women become digital and blog thought leaders, bringing these too often eclipsed perspectives to the world media stage. By working with girls in townships, slums, inner-cities and remote villages around the world, she developed a deeply woven grassroots sensibility, as well as an appreciation of how our human story is as similar as it is different. It has been her joy and challenge to birth these stories to the world.