Brenda Brent Williams

Board Secretary

Brenda Brent Williams a local community activist who is passionate about working collaboratively with others who share her social justice concerns, particularly those involving incarceration and mental illness. She believes in the power of organized people, organized money and strategic voting as effective tools to bring about change. She is a member, past Chapter President and past Louisiana Connection (civic engagement) Committee Chairman of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She was the subject of a Christian Science Monitor documentary and related magazine article about her five years as mentor for a teenager in the Volunteers of America Mentoring Children of Promise [Prisoners] Program. An active member of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, she chaired the Respect for Life Ministry’s Aging Out Showers for young people aging out of foster care and currently serves in the Social Justice Ministry that grew out of that effort.  She received the Order of St. Louis Leadership and Service Award from the Archdiocese of New Orleans. She also received the Sophie Aramburo Leadership Award from Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary, and service award from Knights of Columbus. She serves as Chairman of the Louisiana Civil Rights Museum Advisory Board and as a member of the Jefferson Parish Children and Youth Planning Board.