Yvette Williams MBE
Social Justice Campaigner
For more than three decades, Yvette has been an ardent champion of equality and diversity.
Specialising in cultural and organisational change, she has promoted public and community engagement strategies at a senior level.
Yvette was a member of the TUC Anti-racist task force from 2020 to 2022.
Yvette Williams - social justice campaigner
“Many of the former colonies that became independent did that out of union movements, whether in their islands or their countries… And I think that's one of the legacies that the trade union movement left in terms of employment rights.”
Yvette Williams appears in Activism in the 80s
Yvette was head of Equality and Diversity for the Crown Prosecution Service in London for 14 years, developing hate crime prosecution policies and community engagement strategies.
She was a founding member of Operation Black Vote, worked with the Mangrove Community Association, and served as a Trustee for the Tabernacle Community Centre in her home neighbourhood of Notting Hill.
She was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list in 2012.
Yvette is a co-founder of the Justice 4 Grenfell Campaign.
From the campaign’s inception in June 2017, Yvette has been a key speaker at many events including the Women of the World festival, the Justice Lecture at the GMB union conference and TEDx London.
In April 2020 the Campaign won the Education Category at the New York Film festival for the film ‘Grenfell and Social Murder’ co-produced with the Open University and Hamlett Films.
In September 2020, Yvette featured on an iconic front fold out cover of British Vogue as one of 20 international activists.
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