In this episode Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in discussion with Dr. Nada Ali about her experience as a Black woman on the campus of the University of Massachusetts at Boston and her work on women in the Sudan. Williams is Director of the Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at UMass Boston and Ali is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Ali’s research focuses on gender and development, governance, human rights, militarization, and post conflict settings using feminist theories and methodologies with a focus on societies in the Middle East, and Africa including Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya and Egypt. She is also the author of Gender, Race and Sudan Exile Politics and several book chapters, journal articles, and academic policy reports. Ali also currently serves on the Trotter Institute Transition committee and the editorial board of the Trotter Review. #Trotter #TrotterInstitute #Sudan #BlackWomen