Professor Verna Williams launched the Blog for the Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice at University of Cincinnati, https://ucsocialjustice.com/.
Professor Williams moderated a panel, From Citizen to Enemy: Looking back at Japanese American incarceration to understand modern-day Islamophobia.
Professor Williams, with Professor Houh, and Professor Kalsem received the Marian Spencer Diversity Ambassador Award, as Co-Directors of the Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, University of Cincinnati, 2016. Additional information can be found here:https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/diversity/docs/spencer-award-masterlist-2016.pdf.