Bisa Williams
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Bisa Williams | |
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| United States Ambassador to Niger | |
| In office October 29, 2010 – September 13, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Bernadette M. Allen |
| Succeeded by | Eunice S. Reddick |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) |
| Children | 1 son |
| Relatives | Ntozake Shange (sister) Ifa Bayeza (sister) |
| Alma mater | National War College, University of California, Los Angeles, Yale College |
| Occupation | Ambassador |
Bisa Williams (born 1954) is an American diplomat. She is the former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Republic of Niger in Niamey. She assumed the post on October 29, 2010. She left her post in September 13, 2013.
Bisa Williams was born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Her father Dr. Paul T. Williams was a general surgeon while her mother Eloise Owens Williams was a social worker and later a professor of Social Work at the College of New Jersey. Her sister, Ntozake Shange, was a playwright best known for writing the Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Her other sister, Ifa Bayeza, is also a playwright, who co-wrote the multi-generational novel, Some Sing, Some Cry, with her sister Shange.[1] She received as Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College, where she graduated in 1976 cum laude with honors distinctions in Black Literature of the Americas.[2] She later received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, and a second MA from the University of California, Los Angeles in comparative literature.[3][4]
