Sherri Williams' stories reflect life and give people information that empowers them and improves the quality of their lives.
Since 1999 her stories have transported readers to new places and introduced them to unique people in their own backyard and across the globe. Whether in Mississippi covering a Ku Klux Klan rally or in Mandini, South Africa attending a memorial service of an elementary student who died from AIDS complications, writing about the complexity, compassion and conflict in life has been a priority.
Williams' diverse reporting experience includes covering education, state and federal courts, social services, youth culture, diverse/immigrant communities and neighborhoods. She produced well-written hard news and enterprise stories. Her evolving interest in multimedia reporting has led her to learn to shoot video, gather audio and start learning to produce sound slides.
Williams' enterprise stories include chronicling a New Orleans family's resettlement in Ohio after Hurricane Katrina, a profile of Money, Miss. 50 years after Emmett Till's murder and covering Rosa Parks' funeral. Her beat coverage includes federal police and city council corruption trials. Williams broke a story that led to the Justice Department's investigation of Mississippi's juvenile jails.
Williams' interest in global affairs has led to reporting fellowships to South Africa and Cuba. She is also studying Spanish.
Sherri Williams has been a staff writer at the AP (Jackson, Miss.), The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.) and The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. Her work has also appeared in Essence, Heart & Soul, Ebony and NV magazines and on Essence.com.
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