Terry Williams(X)
- Writer
Terry Williams is a professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. He specializes in teenage life and culture, drug abuse, crews and gangs, and urban social policy. His work has been covered in The American Prospect, New Republic, BBC, WNYC, audioboom, The Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Discovery Channel, among many others. He is the joint recipient of a MacArthur foundation grant to study the culture of housing projects. Williams is the founder and director of the Harlem Writers Crew Project, a multimedia approach to urban education for center city and rural youths.