Feb 20, 2020

 

April 14, 2021

Tamara studied the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin Madison and is a current student of Midwifery at the Midwives College of Utah. Tamara is a founding member of the Wisconsin Doulas of Color Collective, co-founder of Harambee Village, a community-based-doula organization, and Maroon Calabash, a Black Women-led Reproductive Justice organization.

Tamara’s activism work includes the intersections of pregnancy and racism, incarceration, trauma, gender identity, infant loss, trauma, economic status, and access to human milk.

In her personal life, Tamara is a life partner, mother of eight (six from her own womb), who enjoys family road trips. Tamara advocates for (while practicing) radical self-love, mindfulness, peaceful communication, and honoring the sacred Mother Earth.

 

Her previous roles include Camp Director for a residential camp for children with epilepsy as well as a Program Manager developing, implementing and evaluating programs for the Epilepsy Foundation of South and Central Texas. She has trained 2500+ school nurses and other school personnel, over 5000+ students and 1500+ first responders in seizure first aid.

 

Advocacy and health promotion are at the heart of both her professional and personal life. In her downtime, she enjoys volunteer work and is especially proud to mentor black youth who are experiencing adverse home-life situations. She is a member of the African American Health Network of Dane County and Global Shapers Madison Hub.

Representative Shelia Stubbs is extremely active in the community, providing leadership, mentoring and volunteer services, and has received numerous community recognition, service award and honors including being named  2019 YWCA Woman of Distinction Award Recipient, 2020 BRAVA Woman to Watch Recipient. and Legislative Board Member of the Wisconsin Women in Government. She is the beautiful wife of Bishop Godfrey A. Stubbs and the mother of Aquila.  Also, she is a Co-Founder of the End Time Ministries International Church in Madison, WI. 

Williams was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She attended Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science & Africana Studies, with a correlate sequence in Hispanic Studies. After graduation, T.R. participated in the Coro Public Affairs Fellowship Program completing over 250 hours of training in public affairs, communication and team building. This fellowship led to her employment at the educational non- profit organization, the Harlem Children’s Zone, in New York City. After living and working in New York City, T.R. decided to return home to Wisconsin to attend law school at the University of Wisconsin Madison (UW Law). 

While in law school, Williams served as a judicial intern for Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, was appointed as Co-Director of Corporate Relations for the largest student-run organization in the country (National Black Law Students Association) and participated in the Remington Center’s Economic Justice Institute. 

T.R. began her legal career practicing family law at Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee Inc., she later joined the criminal defense practice as an Assistant State Public Defender in the Milwaukee Trial Office. T.R. went on to combine these experiences by serving as a Spanish bilingual family law and criminal defense attorney at Centro Legal. 

Williams took her skills to re engage in the work of educating youth as a Founding Board Member of Milwaukee Excellence Charter School (MXCS). This led to a position with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) in the Office of the Chief of Staff as the inaugural Alumni & Student Engagement Associate. In this role, T.R. engineered and implemented an alumni engagement strategy for the largest public-school district in the State of Wisconsin. 

T.R. Williams moved back to Madison, WI in April of 2018 to join the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association as their Advocacy & Government Relations Specialist. In this role, T.R. blocked and tackled in the State and Federal legislatures on behalf of Wisconsin’s 17 Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. 

T.R. believes that effective and efficient communication is grounded in focusing on edifying the listener/audience. With this foundation one can advocate with impact. Impactful advocacy is the art of bridging the gap between one’s current reality and one’s aspired reality.

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