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Dr. Niama L. Williams
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Themes
| Affirming the Fully Imagined Life: Blow Up Your Barriers and Live Free! |
| Blowing Up Barriers Take One: Hey, Why Can’t I? |
| The Inner Self & The Outer Self: Two Workshops To Put You on the Path to a Fully Imagined Life |
| The Nine Steps to Living Well BEFORE You Lose the Weight |
| The Four Boyfriends: How To Design Your Life Spiritually |
About
Dr. Niama L. Williams is the guiding force behind Blowing Up Barriers Enterprises, a company that specializes in leading you to the life you have dreamed of living but can’t quite seem to get to on your own.
She is the author of nine books, each describing her survival of trauma and celebrating those who have assisted her as she’s walked her path.
Dr. Ni also facilitates two workshop series, “Affirming the Fully Imagined Life” and “It’s Okay To Want: Eroticism and the Survival of Sexual Trauma” and interviews authors the first Saturday of every month from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. on “Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes with Dr. Ni” under the auspices of BlogTalkRadio.com.
Review her credentials, publications and workshop descriptions at her website: www.blowingupbarriers.com; listen to her audiobooks at iAmplify.com; or read the latest of her personal story at Tim Hooker’s Sushi Tuesday, www.sushituesday.com.
Assets
Nineteen years of public speaking that began with little lunchtime gatherings in the university library at which I worked as a library assistant. The University Librarian attended and my department chair approved the room; my old high school speech and debate coach took a day off from School Board presidenting to hear my nascent prose and poetry.
I learned to welcome the silence following my words; my insecurity washed away by those who walked up afterwards, telling me that they had not clapped because they were still mulling over the startling things I had said.
People who grew up hating poetry love my lines; people who thought they were not supposed to engage with ideas find themselves discussing my metaphors and symbolism. I am the academic poet who reaches Willie Bobo on the street.
I bring to the speakers platform the understanding Sheniqua has of the world, and all that is arrayed against her. Yes, I have Ph.D. in hand, but I have used whatever resources at my disposal to GET that Ph.D.; thus I can touch the women who waste their afternoons in DPA offices across the country and around the world. I know how they are treated and I know how they chafe at that treatment.
I am also a poet and academic in love with the word. Humble and easily smitten, I wrap my arms around T. S. Eliot and Toni Cade Bambara with equivalent glee; I joke about Eliot’s relentlessly paralyzed super-intellectual as easily as I recognize the boy men begging for money from their women in the grocery store that Bambara describes in THE SALT EATERS.
My mission one to share that joy in the word, to reveal the freedom within expressing your own brilliance, the liberation available via pen, paper, and a quiet afternoon.
Rave Reviews
My speaking engagements go back to 1989, and thus I will not list them here. However, I recently presented during International Women’s Day Philadelphia at the request of Ms. Sherrie Cohen (sherriecohen@comcast.net) and Ms. Annette Owens (naesha@hotmail.com). Please feel free to contact them for references.
Ms. Maleka Fruean (maleka@bigbluemarblebooks.com) of Big Blue Marble Bookstore and Mr. Dan Gasiewski (dang@firstpersonarts.org) of First Person Arts can attest to the versatility, wit and agile mind at work when I stand in front of an audience.
Mr. Gregory Frost (gf@gregoryfrost.com), prize-winning science fiction author, can discuss my instructive abilities and the many ways in which I can entice comments from the most resistant and terrified undergraduate audiences.
