Interview with AJ Williams, recently named one of Boston’s Most Impactful Black Women in 2021, AJ Williams, the Founder and Creative Director of AJ Events, has become an icon in her industry, specializing in luxury weddings, corporate events, nonprofit events, and fundraisers – and more recently, virtual events!
The education of the Black woman has always hit very close to home for me. Not solely because I am a Black woman myself but because of the first-hand experiences that have revealed to me its value. I can vividly remember the moment I realized that educational disadvantages for Black women were not merely a topic of conversation but real experiences.
The murder of George Floyd was a lightning rod galvanizing the Black Lives Matter movement and highlighting the vast inequalities that remain within our society and economy. Perhaps among the most striking of these is the widening racial wealth gap with Black families holding roughly one-tenth the wealth of white families. One key to ushering in a new age of greater social and racial equity lies in narrowing the vast wealth and earning disparities among the Black population, and Black women specifically.