Loretta Green-Williams is the founder and executive director for Women of Concern Professional & Strategic Conscious Networking, Inc., LLC (WOCPSCN). WOCPSCN’s vision is to extend initiatives that will enhance gender equity through socioeconomic constructs. The former president for PACC, Loretta has extended WOCPSCN’s reach to form the Global Sustainability Partnerships (GSP). Under the premise of the UN Sustainable Goals 2030, the GSP monthly Zoom convenes purpose is to maintain a global alliance that will support one another’s projects and global sustainable businesses.
Loretta’s organizational-building practices include the University of San Francisco’s Sister Connection, which is a campus community support organization for female students of color, and the Caribbean Diaspora Professional and Business Association. She has sat on the Special Advisory Counsel for the late Dr. Roy A. Hastick, Sr., founder, and president for the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (CACCI). Inspired by Dr. Hastick, she wrote, and executive produced the documentary CaribeME: New Yorkers of the Caribbean Diaspora, with her daughter, filmmaker Dana Verde that was editor and director. The documentary inspired Loretta to create Caribeme Magazine, a cultural-conscious lifestyle online magazine.
She is currently Dance Ministry Director for the First AME: Bethel Church, Harlem, NY, and the AME First District Dance Commissioner (FDDC). With twenty years in the fitness industry and dance ministry, Loretta’s ministry focus is somatic movement as liberatory practices. She has been an adjunct instructor at California Institute of Integral Studies, Women’s Spirituality department, and instructor for the Professional Development Institute for Practicing Educators Program, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA.
Green-Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and was the first person in the history of the University of San Francisco to receive a certification in Ethnic Studies. Also, from USF she has a Masters in Sports and Fitness Management. From the California Institute of Integral Studies, Loretta has a Master’s from the School of Consciousness and Transformation, and ABD status in Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Loretta has certifications in Human Rights Advocacy from the US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights, and she has been given the title Global Goodwill Ambassador from the Global Goodwill International Foundation. She is currently authoring her third book regarding small African American communities in Southern New Jersey that has been recognized by the New Jersey Historical Society. Green-Williams is an ordained minister from the National Association of Christian Ministers, and International Kingdom Assemblies, and is enrolled in the doctoral program at Alliance Theological Seminary.