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}}Ann-Marie Williams is a Belizean public policy advisor, administrator and former journalist. After spending over two decades as a reporter, Williams became the first Executive Director for the National Women's Commission of Belize. She serves as a governmental advisor to the legislature and executive on issues impacting women. She was honored with the US Secretary of State's Women in Public Service Award in 2011. Early lifeAnn-Marie Williams was born in Belize City, Belize, the first daughter of a family of six siblings.{{sfn|El Guardian|2014}} She was raised by a single mother, who worked as a teacher and librarian.{{sfn|Downs|2017}} At the age of seventeen, Williams began working as an announcer at Radio Belize, at the time, the only radio broadcaster in the country. Completing a course on journalism at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication through the University of the West Indies,{{sfn|El Guardian|2014}} she continued her education, earning a bachelor's degree from the University College of Belize.{{sfn|The Reporter|2015}} CareerIn 1988, Williams won the Edison Coleman Award for a program she produced for radio and was among the first reporters to read the news for Radio Belize. In 1995, she began the newscasts at Krem Radio, both writing and reading the news for a year. She went on to serve as a news anchor for Channel 3 and later at Channel 5 television. In 2000, wanting to further her education, Williams attended the University of Sussex in England, earning a master's degree in gender and development. Upon completion of her degree, she returned to Belize and Channel 5. Perhaps her most remembered expose as a journalist was the breaking of the story on the sale of Belizean passports in 2002, for which she and Channel 5 received awards from the Caribbean Broadcasting Union for investigative journalism. In 2003, she became an editor at The Reporter newspaper.{{sfn|El Guardian|2014}} In 2008, Williams left journalism when she was appointed by the government, as the first executive director of the public policy advisory board on gender, the National Women's Commission. In that capacity, she administered public policy which relates to women's issues and advises the government on policies which expand women's equal access.{{sfn|El Guardian|2014}} In one program she implemented, the Women in Politics Project, women are trained in the political process and requirements to be a public servant.{{sfn|El Guardian|2012}} In 2011, from a pool of 200 international applicants, she received the US Secretary of State's Women in Public Service Award.{{sfn|Ambergris Today|2011}} Williams and the National Women's Commission came under fire in 2013, after developing a revised gender policy for the country, from various church leaders, who were alarmed at the apparent inclusion of Belize's LGBT community.{{sfn|News 5|2013}} Williams' position was that the new policy included terminology to bring the document into line with the Constitution of Belize, which bars discrimination.{{sfn|News 5|2013}}{{sfn|7 News|2013}} At the time, a court challenge to Belize's anti-sodomy law was pending with several of the church bodies as opponents to legalization.{{sfn|Scott|2015}} Despite the controversy, the cabinet approved the policy by consensus.{{sfn|Ramos|2013}} In 2014, Williams was named a "trailblazer" in the program launched by Kim Simplis Barrow, Special Envoy for Women and Children.{{sfn|El Guardian|2014}} In 2015, she was awarded a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship and completed post-graduate studies at the American University Washington College of Law on human trafficking.{{sfn|The Reporter|2015}} Williams launched an initiative for National Women's Commission in 2017 to reduce gender-based violence.{{sfn|News 5|2017}} References CitationsBibliography{{refbegin|30em}}- {{cite web|ref=harv|last1=Downs|first1=Kenya|title=Meet Ann-Marie Williams|url=https://internationalreportingproject.org/blog/view/blackgirlmagic-meet-ann-marie-williams|website=IRP|publisher=International Reporting Project|accessdate=16 November 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116154127/https://internationalreportingproject.org/blog/view/blackgirlmagic-meet-ann-marie-williams|archivedate=16 November 2017|location=Washington, D.C.|date=16 August 2017}}
- {{cite news|ref=harv|last1=Ramos|first1=Adele|title=Barrow administration’s new gender policy opens door for gays?|url=http://amandala.com.bz/news/barrow-administrations-gender-policy-opens-door-gays/|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=Amandala|date=24 May 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522051038/http://amandala.com.bz/news/barrow-administrations-gender-policy-opens-door-gays/|archivedate=22 May 2017|location=Belize City, Belize}}
- {{cite news|ref=harv|last1=Scott|first1=Julia|title=The Lonely Fight Against Belize’s Antigay Laws|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/magazine/the-lonely-fight-against-belizes-antigay-laws.html?_r=2|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=The New York Times|date=22 May 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116172519/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/magazine/the-lonely-fight-against-belizes-antigay-laws.html?_r=3|archivedate=16 November 2017|location=New York City, New York}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|7 News|2013}}|author=|title=An Agenda For All|url=http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=25530|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=7 News|date=16 May 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727204824/http://7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=25530|archivedate=27 July 2013|location=Belize City, Belize}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Reporter|2015}}|author=|title=Ann Marie Williams graduates as first Hubert Humphrey Fellow|url=http://www.reporter.bz/general/ann-marie-williams-graduates-as-first-hubert-humphrey-fellow/|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=The Reporter|date=2 July 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130100022/http://www.reporter.bz/general/ann-marie-williams-graduates-as-first-hubert-humphrey-fellow/|archivedate=30 January 2016|location=Belize City, Belize}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|Ambergris Today|2011}}|author=|title=Belizean Woman Awarded Women in Public Service Award|url=http://www.ambergristoday.com:80/content/stories/2011/december/01/belizean-woman-awarded-women-public-service-award|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=Ambergris Today|date=1 December 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910012657/http://www.ambergristoday.com:80/content/stories/2011/december/01/belizean-woman-awarded-women-public-service-award|archivedate=10 September 2014|location=San Pedro Town, Belize}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|News 5|2013}}|author=|title=Churches meet the P.M. to denounce gender policy|url=http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/86445|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=News 5|date=7 June 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627125731/http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/86445|archivedate=27 June 2017|location=Belize City, Belize}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|El Guardian|2012}}|author=|title=More Women in Politics |url=http://www.guardian.bz/index.php?view=article&catid=40%3Apolitics&id=4539%3Amore-women-in-politics&tmpl=component&layout=default&page=&option=com_content&Itemid=90|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=El Guardian|date=22 March 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116164213/http://www.guardian.bz/index.php?view=article&catid=40%3Apolitics&id=4539%3Amore-women-in-politics&tmpl=component&layout=default&page=&option=com_content&Itemid=90|archivedate=16 November 2017|location=Belize City, Belize}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|News 5|2017}}|author=|title=The Plan to Decrease Gender-Based Violence|url=http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/149107|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=News 5|date=6 July 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116175216/http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/149107|archivedate=16 November 2017|location=Belize City, Belize}}
- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|El Guardian|2014}}|author=|title=Trailblazing—Ann-Marie Williams|url=http://www.guardian.bz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8325:Trailblazing-Ann-Marie-Williams|accessdate=16 November 2017|publisher=El Guardian|date=28 August 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008155425/http://www.guardian.bz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8325:Trailblazing-Ann-Marie-Williams|archivedate=8 October 2017|location=Belize City, Belize}}
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