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Dr. Adriane Johnson-Williams is founder and Principal at Standpoint Consulting. She is an advanced results-based leadership practitioner dedicated to improving the lives of black and brown people in her hometown and across the nation. Dr. Johnson-Williams is a native Memphian, who got her start in Memphis City Schools. She began her researcher for the Council of the Great City Schools, an advocacy group for urban school districts, located in Washington, D.C.

Previously, Dr. Johnson-Williams was an assistant professor in the College of Human Resources and Education at West Virginia University; a special assistant for Strategy and Planning at LeMoyne-Owen College and a Program Officer at the Pyramid Peak Foundation. She also served as s founding staff member at Seeding Success, where she ultimately became Director of Collaborative Action.

Dr. Johnson-Williams received a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Johnson-Williams received her Master of Education in Secondary Education from The George Washington University and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and French from Wellesley College. Dr. Johnson-Williams is currently board chair for ACE Awareness, as well as board chair and co-founder of Whole Child Strategies, Inc. She was named a 2021 Super Women in Business by the Memphis Business Journal, 2020 Woman of the Year by Girls Inc. of Memphis, and received the Evelyn S. Field Award from SisterReach for demonstrating Reproductive Justice at the Intersections.