The Reverend Ada Renée Williams, is the Director of the Office of  Anti-Racism and Racial Equity of the Sisters of Mercy.  She holds a Master of Divinity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, Ca., certificates in Black Church Africana Religious Studies and Women’s Studies in Religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where she is currently a Doctor of Philosophy student in Black Church/Africana Religious Studies and Womanist Ethics.