Bisa Williams

Bisa Williams
United States Ambassador to Niger
In office 29 October 2010 – 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Bernadette M. Allen
Succeeded by	Eunice S. Reddick
Personal details
Born	1954
Nationality	American
Relations	sister Ntozake Shange (author)
Children	1 son (Michael)
Alma mater	National War College, University of California, Los Angeles, Yale College
Occupation	Ambassador
Website	Ambassador Bisa Williams

Bisa Williams (born 1954) is the former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Republic of Niger in Niamey. She assumed the post on October 29, 2010. She left her post in 2013.

Bisa Williams was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and Trenton, New Jersey. Her father Dr. Paul T. Williams was a surgeon while her mother Eloise Owens Williams was a professor of Social Work at the College of New Jersey. Her sister, Ntozake Shange, is a playwright best known for writing the Broadway play "for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf". Her other sister, Ifa Bayeza, is also a playwright, who co-wrote a multi-generational novel with her sister Shange. She received as Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College, where she graduated in 1976 cum laude with honors distinctions in Black Literature of the Americas. She later received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, and a second MA from the University of California, Los Angeles in comparative literature.

Bisa Williams is a career foreign service officer, having joined the Foreign Service in 1984. Her previous overseas postings include Port Louis, Mauritius; Paris, France and Panama City, Panama. Her first overseas assignment was in Port Louis, Mauritius, a mission that also covers Seychelles and Comoros, where she served as Deputy Chief of Mission under Ambassador John Price. She oversaw the African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum to improve trade relations between the United States and Africa.

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