Erica Williams

Erica N. Williams is an international human rights activist, speaker, and author. She is the Founder of the Set It Off Movement a safe, sacred and socially just organism created to promote the well-being of poor black women and girls in the United States. It is aimed at ending the dehumanization, destruction, and death-dealing of poor Black women in America. The movement is inspired by the 1996 film Set It Off, which follows four Black women friends in Los Angeles, California, who plan to execute a bank robbery—each doing so for different reasons—to achieve better for themselves and their families.

She is a former national social justice organizer for Repairers of the Breach and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Williams is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Howard University School of Divinity, and Harvard Divinity School. She is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).