This role, he helps to provide more professional development opportunities for BIPOC students pursuing careers in the classical music field.   As Director of Education at the Oakland Symphony, Mr. Williams launched the organization’s first equity, diversity and inclusion internal audit, engaging board, staff, musicians, and external consultants, in dialogues to shift organizational culture.Mr. Williams served as Manager of Community Relations for the National Symphony Orchestra, assisting with strategic planning, project management and community programming. He established the annual In Your Neighborhood performance series, curated in collaboration with over 20 community partners, to deepen the orchestra’s social impact.  

While in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Williams worked at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Sphinx Organization, and University Musical Society, building community and school partnerships that address the lack of representation of African Americans and Latinos in the arts. He served on numerous multidisciplinary grant review panels for the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

He is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, holding a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with an emphasis in accounting.

Since 2010, Mr. Williams has served as Minister of Music at Beloved Community Church United Church of Christ, in Maryland.  He was Minister of Music of New Birth Baptist Church, in Inkster, Michigan, from 1998-2007. He was both on faculty and a former student of the Mattie Moss Clark Conservatory of Music, in Michigan.

She currently consults as an environmental justice activist, advocate and community organizer for various non-profit organizations.  She is currently works with the non-profit Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) on educating African American churches about energy efficiency and solar resources in Prince George’s County and Baltimore City. Additionally, she is consulting on the National Wildlife Federation Sacred Grounds program to connect faith based organizations with nature by promoting wildlife through planting and growing native plants on their church grounds. She has also worked on other environmental campaigns including the ban on fracking in MD, the ridding of the threat of trash incineration in PG, and the of Zero Waste planning task force in PG.  Robin volunteers on the Southern Green Line Coalition, the Air and Climate Public Advisory Committee at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, GW Cancer Institute LGBTQ Community Advisory Board, Prince George’s DoE’s Environmental Action Council; The Bethel House Board of Directors, Maryland Environmental Health Network Environmental Justice Legislative, and Stop Natural Gas Teams.  Robin has BA in Economics and MBA from Rutgers University, as well as a Masters in Sustainable Urban Planning with a concentration in Climate Change from George Washington University. Lastly, Robin lives in Camp Springs, MD and is the blessed mother of her 26 year old Joshua.