Ep. 88-Carolyn Sue Williams: Demonstrating Leadership Can Open Doors I Didn't Even Know Were Closed

Dr. Carolyn Sue Williams shares part of her journey from a childhood with 11 other siblings in the Baton Rouge of the 1950s as an totally un-inspired high school student with only the prospect of "working in a white woman's kitchen" after graduation, to becoming one of the first handful of Black women in America to be awarded a PhD in political science in the early 1970s; an accomplishment even she never saw coming. She shares her eye-opening experience in a state sponsored civics and leadership development program after her junior year of high school, the Bayou State Girls program, and the life-altering outcomes that flowed therefrom, and ultimately leading to a full scholarship for undergrad school with a class ranking of #13 and No expectation of college, at all! Ten or so years later with a B.S., M.S. and PhD in Political Science and the totally unexpected opportunity to move to D.C. she subsequently received a Presidential appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development followed by 35+ years of entrepreneurship and sage advice worth sharing with others.