Elisabeth Omilami

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Elisabeth Williams-Omilami (born February 18, 1951) is an American human rights activist and an actress.

Life and career

Born in Atlanta, Williams-Omilami is the daughter of activist Hosea Williams and Georgia State Representative Juanita T. Williams. Williams-Omilami young life was spent with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.[1] After graduating from college, she created the People's Survival Theatre, producing a season of five shows per year.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". People's Survival Theatre continued to produce shows long after Williams-Omilami's journey to New York City when her husband Afemo Omilami received a scholarship to New York University. In New York, Williams-Omilami worked as an arts administrator and executive assistant.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Williams-Omilami directed and acted as much as she could, supporting her family as her husband's career grew. In 1985, Williams-Omilami left New York to return to Atlanta.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". While in Atlanta Williams-Omilami continued to perform on stage and in film and television.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Williams-Omilami graduated from Hampton University with a BA in Theatre.[2]

Activism

Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Williams-Omilami's parents brought her along on Civil Rights marches and movements across the South since she was young. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Williams-Omilami attended boarding school to Wasatch Academy in Utah where she was the only African-American student.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Williams-Omilami had worked for over 15 years in the background of her father's Hosea Feed The Hungry and Homeless efforts,[3][2] and upon his passing in November 2000 became the organization's CEO, expanding the organization from a budget of $200,000 to over $1.5 million.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Williams-Omilami worked to provide programs that would meet the basic needs of the working poor and homeless along a continuum of care leading to self-sufficiency. Williams-Omilami expanded these programs from four months to year-round services and established medical clinics, clothing distribution, barber and beautician services, children's educational programs, and home delivery of over 22,000 dinners per year.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Williams-Omilami has spoken and toured worldwide for several international relief efforts in places like the Philippines, where she has founded and operates a school for the underprivileged children of Mindanou,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and Haiti and Uganda, where she sponsors several orphanages.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Williams-Omilami has been acknowledged many times for her humanitarian service.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Honorary membership induction into Zeta Phi Beta sorority,[4] A Georgia State Senate Resolution in recognition of her community service,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Atlanta Business League 100 Women of Influence,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". For Sisters Only,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Women In Film Humanitarian Award,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Secretary of State of Georgia Outstanding Citizen,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". State of Georgia Goodwill Ambassador,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". YWCA Women of Achievement Academy,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Burger King Urban Everyday Heroes,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Kraft Community Service;Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Southern Christian Leadership Conference Women Drum Major for Justice,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". T. D. Jakes Phenomenal Woman,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Daughters of Isis Community Service Award,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". the Emory University M.L.K. Community Service AwardScript error: No such module "Unsubst". and The National Conference of Black Mayors Fannie Lou Hamer Unsung Heroine Award.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Theatre and film

Template:BLP unreferenced section Williams-Omilami founded of one of Atlanta's earliest theatre companies People's Survival Theater,[2] as well as the "Summer Artscamp", providing arts programming for economically challenged youth for over 7 years.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Williams-Omilami is a playwright has written several plays, one of which is There Is A River In My Soul.[2] She is a past member of both the Georgia Council For The Arts[2] and the Fulton County Arts Council[2] and is a passionate advocate for the arts to be instituted as permanent part of society.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She is an actress and has performed at the Alliance Theatre in A Christmas Carol and in early 2002 in Left Hand Singing at the Jewish Theatre of The South.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She can also be seen in the HBO made-for-television movie Boycott,[2] In the Heat of the NightScript error: No such module "Unsubst". and the award-winning I'll Fly Away.[2]

References

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