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|honorific-prefix = |name = Bisa Williams |honorific-suffix = |image = Bisa Williams ambassador.jpg |imagesize = |alt = |order = |ambassador_from = United States |country = Niger |term_start = 29 October 2010 |term_end = 2013 |predecessor = Bernadette M. Allen |successor = Eunice S. Reddick |president = Barack Obama |birth_date = 1954 |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = American |spouse = |party = |relations = 2 sisters: Ntozake Shange (author) and Ifa Bayeza (playwright) |children = 1 son (Michael) |residence = |alma_mater = National War College, University of California, Los Angeles, Yale College |occupation = Ambassador |profession = |religion = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = Ambassador Bisa Williams |footnotes = }} Bisa Williams (born 1954) is the former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Republic of Niger in Niamey. She assumed the post on October 29, 2010. She left her post in 2013. Early lifeBisa Williams was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and Trenton, New Jersey. Her father Dr. Paul T. Williams was a surgeon while her mother Eloise Owens Williams was a professor of Social Work at the College of New Jersey. Her sister, Ntozake Shange, was a playwright best known for writing the Broadway play "for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf". Her other sister, Ifa Bayeza, is also a playwright, who co-wrote the multi-generational novel, Some Sing, Some Cry, with her sister Shange.[1] She received as Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College, where she graduated in 1976 cum laude with honors distinctions in Black Literature of the Americas.[2] She later received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, and a second MA from the University of California, Los Angeles in comparative literature.[3][4] CareerBisa Williams is a career foreign service officer, having joined the Foreign Service in 1984. Her previous overseas postings include Port Louis, Mauritius; Paris, France and Panama City, Panama.[4] Her first overseas assignment was in Port Louis, Mauritius, a mission that also covers Seychelles and Comoros, where she served as Deputy Chief of Mission under Ambassador John Price.[5][6] She oversaw the African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum to improve trade relations between the United States and Africa.[2] Prior to being assigned to Niamey, Bisa Williams, then U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, participated in a September 2009 six-day trip to Cuba in an attempt to improve bilateral relations. During the trip she met with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez Barrera, worked on restoring direct mail service between the two countries, and toured parts of western Cuba hit by Hurricane Ike.[7] She also invited dissidents to a reception at the United States Interests Section in Havana.[8][9] Her nomination to be United States Ambassador to Niger was sent to the United States Senate on November 30, 2009,[10] and she assumed the post in Niamey eleven months later, on October 29, 2010.[11] She left her post in 2013. Williams is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.[12] References1. ^{{cite news |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Et1hUTmZ6z0J:www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/WilliamsTestimony100202a.pdf+&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg_KzzaZYSgHQ_F2YIyI9FvZnkO0pWjaGdKryM7eTpFfb1B59qT-gzSpSHWvdxUocZH22pOEjz19Ilr1C-P5RmJsimx_ewGZ8w9lg77V_8y2nKpxijSPNBoO5tiZerdDb-UIvJF&sig=AHIEtbTSsCVYpCLGMsXZwcUI3tgyMBKHEA |title=Statement of Bisa Williams, Ambassador-Designate to the Republic of Niger, Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations |first=Bisa |last=Williams |date=2 February 2010 |accessdate=26 May 2012}} 2. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://www.yaleclubdc.org/mc/community/eventdetailsPrint.do?print=true&eventId=277552 |title=Mentoring Session with Bisa Williams '76, Dpty Asst Sec'y of State (A) |publisher=The Yale Club of Washington, D.C. |date=25 May 2010 |accessdate=26 May 2012}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:zcoGLXl1QEcJ:www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Bios15.pdf+&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgZzN8ub-C58BKX_twqaO2zcSxkKS1MQ9raXu2_4h9mMBG1yqIGDEPiDT_eiXbAlWLqieJuoK-qOlgnjUpFAzW1BSRwAcAZnYj7oqNBp5ykYb92jjh4ebujxthhyItdRFN5uFBx&sig=AHIEtbQkcJD1RV8AzK3uHb2FBhYnC2ZFnQ |title=Engaging Cuba: Policy Options for the United States, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere |publisher=Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |date=16 November 2009 |accessdate=26 May 2012 |page=2}} 4. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://niamey.usembassy.gov/ambassador2.html |publisher=United States Department of State |title=Ambassador Bisa Williams |accessdate=26 May 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509120731/http://niamey.usembassy.gov/ambassador2.html |archivedate=9 May 2012 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite book |title=Report on Trade Mission to Sub-Saharan Africa |author=United States House Committee on Ways and Means |publisher=DIANE Publishing |isbn=9781428950306 |page=11}} 6. ^{{cite book |title=Mauritius Investment and Business Guide |publisher=International Business Publications |year=2002 |isbn=9780739741214 |page=206}} 7. ^{{Cite news |url=http://articles.cnn.com/2009-09-29/world/us.cuba.talks_1_bisa-williams-cuban-first-such-talks?_s=PM:WORLD |title=Senior U.S. official holds talks in Cuba |publisher=CNN |first=Elise |last=Labott |date=29 September 2009 |accessdate=26 May 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308070743/http://articles.cnn.com/2009-09-29/world/us.cuba.talks_1_bisa-williams-cuban-first-such-talks?_s=PM%3AWORLD |archivedate=8 March 2012 |df= }} 8. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMkWNzq5vE |title=Bisa Williams visita La Habana |publisher=Univision via YouTube |date=1 October 2009 |accessdate=26 May 2012}} 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8281756.stm |title=US and Cuba in high-level talks |publisher=BBC News |date=30 September 2009 |accessdate=26 May 2012}} 10. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-nominations-sent-senate-113009 |title=Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate, 11/30/09 |publisher=WhiteHouse.gov |date=30 November 2009 |accessdate=26 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020235218/http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-nominations-sent-senate-113009 |archive-date=2012-10-20 |dead-url=yes |df= }} 11. ^{{cite news |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/williams-bisa |title=BISA WILLIAMS (1954-) |publisher=Office of the Historian}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/218235.htm|title=Bisa Williams|publisher=US State Department|access-date=2015-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113055221/https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/218235.htm|archive-date=2014-01-13|dead-url=yes|df=}} External links
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