FOUNDER | CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Loretta Green-Williams

Loretta Green-Williams is the founder and chief executive director of WOCPSCN.  She is a Cultural Anthropologist with over fifty years of entrepreneurial and community advocacy experience.   With certifications as a fitness instructor, personal trainer, and Inyanger yoga instructor, Loretta designed "Lo's Aero" which focused on women's health and fitness.  She then transferred her skill sets to develop Green-Williams & Associates, a boutique business development organization.  Academically, she has an ABD status in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Humanities master's degree in Consciousness and Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She holds a master's degree in Sport Management and a Bachelor's in Sociology with certification in Ethnic Studies from the University of San Francisco (USF).  She is certified as an Innovation Island Ambassador and Institute of Intercommunications in Mindful Management Negotiations at Seattle Pacific University.  She has a Human Rights Advocate certification from the US Diplomacy and Human Rights Institute, a Global Goodwill Ambassador certification; a member of the Goodwill Ambassadors Foundation; a Nonprofit Board Member Essentials certificate, and she is an ordained-licensed minister under the National Association of Christian Ministers. She is the past president of the Pan African Chamber of Commerce, South Africa, and former Executive Director for the Ethiopian Cultural Community Center, Oakland, CA. Loretta founded the University of San Francisco's Sister Connection and the Caribbean Diaspora Professional and Business Association. 

 She is the grant recipient from the New Jersey Historical Commission for a research project on the lives of Southern New Jersey African American communities. With her daughter, filmmaker Dana Verde, Loretta is the co-founder of Caribeme Magazine and author/producer of Caribeme: New Yorkers of the Caribbean Diaspora documentary.  She is also the 2023 University of San Francisco's Fr. Stephen A. Privett Living the Mission Award recipient.