Research Interests

Black Aesthetics in Clinical Practice and Academia; Black Aesthetics in Academia; Anti-Oppressive and Liberation Focused Healing; Black Liberatory Praxes; Creative Arts Practices for Community Healing; Recovery from Historical and Systemic Racial Trauma and Violence Among Black Youth; Anti-racism and Anti-Oppression in the Workplace

Biography

Britton Williams, M.Phil, LCAT RDT-BCT holds a Masters in Drama Therapy from New York University and is a PhD candidate in the Social Welfare Program at the Graduate Center (CUNY). She is the founder of The Black MAP Project: A Black People’s Epistemology of Healing, which lifts the history and trajectory of Black creative healing and seeks to (re)imagine mental health care for Black people. Her work is deeply and urgently concerned with the possibilities that live with/in radical (re)imagining and the inextricable connectedness of healing and liberation.

Education

Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, NY

Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare, May 2023 (expected)

Master of Philosophy (M. Phil.), September 30, 2021

New York University, New York, NY

Master of Arts in Drama Therapy September 2012

New York University, New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre | Minor in Applied Theatre May 2002

Awards & Distinctions

Raymond Jacobs Memorial Diversity Award | North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA)

Publications

Williams, B., (2020), The R-RAP revisited: Current conceptualizations and applications. Drama Therapy Review 6:2, 183-201

Williams, B. M. (2018), Unapologetically black: Seven questions and poems that explore how race performs in clinical practice, Drama Therapy Review, 42, 223–32

Williams, B. M. (2017), Role power: Using role theory in support of ethical practice, Drama Therapy Review, 3: 1, 131–48

Williams, B. M. (2016), Minding our own biases: Using drama therapeutic tools to identify and challenge assumptions, biases and stereotypes, Drama Therapy Review, 2: 1, 9–23