This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date.
Join us live from New Haven during the Afro-American Cultural Center's 50th anniversary celebration with Maxine Williams ’91, the chief diversity officer at Meta, formerly Facebook, Inc. Maxine serves as a member of Meta’s most senior executive leadership team under the CEO. Her team works to increase the cognitive diversity — different ways of thinking based on different backgrounds, experiences, and information — of all Meta teams and integrate diverse perspectives into policy and product development. Maxine and her team also develop strategies to attract, retain, and support the growth of underrepresented people at the company.
Prior to Meta, Maxine served as the director of diversity for a global law firm. She has worked as an attorney in criminal, civil, and industrial courts in her native Trinidad and Tobago, and in the UK at the Privy Council. She has also worked with multiple international organizations on development and human rights issues and had a career as a broadcast journalist, actress, and on-air presenter.
Maxine is an independent director on the board of the publicly traded Massy Group of Companies. She graduated from Yale before receiving her law degree with first-class honors from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
