Caroline Woolard & Dr. H. "Herukhuti" Sharif Williams, PhD, MEd
Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement, a founding co-organizer of Art.coop and the CCO of OpenCollective. She is the co-author of three books: Making and Being (Pioneer Works, 2019), a book for educators about interdisciplinary collaboration, co-authored with Susan Jahoda; Art, Engagement, Economy (onomatopee, 2020) a book about managing socially-engaged and public art projects; and TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019, a book about peer learning that Woolard catalyzed in thirty cities internationally over a decade. Woolard’s artwork has been featured twice on New York Close Up (2014, 2016), a digital film series produced by Art21 and broadcast on PBS.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams, PhD is a cultural worker committed to making revolution irresistible through theatre/performance art, filmmaking, poetics, and cultural criticism. The producer-playwright-director has presented work in and around NYC including the New York International Fringe Theatre Festival, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance Blaktinx Festival and Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Afribembé Festival. They are the author of various published works including the poetry collection, Race. Resistance. Love., co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award nonfiction finalist and Bisexual Book Awards nonfiction and anthology winner, Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men. He is executive producing and co-directing a forthcoming documentary film about Black bisexual+ men and the producer-playwright-director of the Afrofuturist, funk, ritual play “In the Valley of Coming Forth.” She is a core faculty member at Goddard College, adjunct associate professor of applied theatre research at City University of New York School of Professional Studies, and visiting adjunct professor in the department of fine arts at Pratt Institute.