Robin Ligon-Williams

Robin Ligon-Williams is an award-winning author, curator, cultural producer, and ethnomusicologist. A graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington (B.A.-Artist Development) and Liberty University (M.A.-Ethnomusicology), Williams has served at the helm of several Arts & Cultural institutions in the Midwest and South, spearheading Garfield Park Arts Center for City of Indianapolis, the Aviation Community Cultural Center for City of Atlanta and the New Orleans Jazz Institute at University of New Orleans.

An advocate for the Black Indian culture for over 20 years, her extensive ethnographic study, Rhythm, Ritual & Resistance: Africa is Alive in the Black Indians of New Orleans recently received the distinction of being installed in the library of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

Williams’ Arts and Culture criticism has been published in the New York Times, Louisiana Weekly, OffBeat Magazine, Gambit Magazine, Indianapolis Star, and the SCLC National Magazine. As artist and curator, Williams has created over 100 exhibitions. Indianapolis Public Library’s new Center for Black Literature and Culture unveiled an exciting exhibition inspired by her book on the Black Indians in the Spring of 2019.