Jesse WIlliams

​Jesse Wesley Williams was born August 5, 1981. He is an American actor, model, and activist, best known for his role as Dr. Jackson Avery on the ABC Television series Grey's Anatomy. He graduated from Temple University and recently won the BET Humanitarian award. In retrieval of  this reward Jesse Williams gave the most moving speech of my lifetime. He incorporated black on black crime with white on black crime, the importance of black women, and police brutality all while exposing the government and racist thinking for what it truly is. Jesse Williams opened this short but riveting thank you speech quoting, “.. a system built to divide, impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.” This speech was made right after Trump had gotten elected and although it was unexpected it was much needed. Few people familiar with Jesse Williams are aware that before he even went to his first modeling audition he started his career teaching American, African, and African-American History in low income Philadelphia public charter schools and then moved to Manhattan to join a law firm to further make a difference in his community. Even after excelling at plays on broadway, cinema films,and television shows Jesse Williams continue to use use his platform to better his community and people of color’s reality. He is a spokesperson for The California Endowment’s Sons and Brothers Campaign and has started a production company called farWord Inc. with his wife Aryn DrakeLee-Williams. This production company would examine and affect the relationship between historical/cultural comprehension and the ways in which media content influences our (collective and individual) health and behavior. farWord Inc’s goal is to create a innovative and developing presence that is necessary to build cultural leadership and creative and psychological independence.