Terrie M. Williams
Founder and President, The Stay Strong Foundation, Inspirational Author And Mental Health AdvocateTerrie is a social worker by training who became a successful public relations pro by her own design, inscribed her prominence as an author of the successful business and inspirational story, and has now emerged as an advocate for youth and those who battle depression.The multi-chaptered story of Terrie Williams is one of phenomenal success and encouragement. She launched The Terrie Williams Agency in 1988—a company that would become one of the country’s most successful public relations and communications firms—and through the years has handled the biggest names in entertainment, sports, business, and politics from Miles Davis, Eddie Murphy and Johnnie L. Cochran to Essence Communications Partners, HBO and Time Warner.Terrie is the author of three successful books: the business bestseller The Personal Touch: What You Really Need to Succeed in Today’s Fast-Paced Business World; the inspirational A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony through the Seven Living Virtues; and Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens, the basis for the 2001 launch of The Stay Strong Foundation, a national non-profit designed to educate and encourage American youth.Terrie’s current work, a book entitled Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting, will be published by Scribner in January 2008 and will tell the untold story of depression among African-Americans as well as Terrie’s tale of her own chronic and crippling depression—a revealing narrative she shared in the June 2005 issue of ESSENCE magazine.As guest host for “The Down & Up Show†on Depressionisreal.org podcast, Terrie has interviewed guests such as Andrew Solomon, author of the critically acclaimed, Noonday Demon former New Jersey First Lady and depression survivor Mary Jo Codey; Jerry Reed, executive director of the SPAN-USA—the Suicide Prevention Action Network; and Dr. Yoasif Rofa, an Iraqi psychiatrist treating depression in his homeland.Today Terrie works tirelessly to reach out to individuals who have suffered or are now suffering—from the struggling high school student, to the successful executive who puts forth the daily “maskâ€, to the former gang member, the incarcerated and those who served time but were later proven innocent. She is a woman on fire, a woman on a mission to help others enter (and re-enter) society as productive and contributing members of their community.Terrie’s accomplishments have been chronicled in numerous publications as Adweek, Jet Magazine, The Boston Globe, New York Daily News, Washington Post, and Crain’s New York Business. She is a highly sought-after speaker and has shared her unique talent with many Fortune 500 companies and diverse organizations, from New York University to the National Hockey League. She and her Agency have been featured as case studies in public relations seminars, college texts, industry newsletters, and novels. Her drive to “save the world†leads her and the efforts of The Stay Strong Foundation to urge corporate and individual responsibility, and to offer educational and leadership workshops, internships, and mentoring opportunities for youth.Terrie’s honors include The Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural & Minority Medicine’s 2006 Eagle Fly Free Award for her work as a depression survivor and her efforts to bring widespread attention to the topic. She has also received The New York Women in Communications Matrix Award in Public Relations—the first woman of color to receive this award in the award’s 70-year history, the PRSA New York Chapter’s Phillip Dorf Mentoring Award, and The Citizen’s Committee for New York Marietta Tree Award for Public Service. In 1996 she was the first person of color honored with the Vernon C. Schranz Distinguished Lectureship at Ball State University, and in 1998 she donated her papers to the Howard University Moorland-Springarn Research Center Archives. Terrie has a B. A. (cum laude) in Psychology and Sociology from Brandeis University, and an M.S. in Social Work from Columbia University.
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