Dr. Damon Williams

Senior Vice President, Program, Training and Youth Development Services

Dr. Damon A. Williams serves as Senior Vice President, Program, Training and Youth Development. He is responsible for leading the national program strategy for Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s strategic outcome areas–Academic Success, Good Character and Citizenship, and Healthy Lifestyles–with a focus on strengthening the Club Experience and creating a new generation of leaders that expand the pipeline into higher education.

Damon has over 16 years of youth development and executive management experience, most recently as Associate Vice Chancellor, Vice Provost, Chief Diversity Officer and faculty member in the department of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While there he was the founding leader of the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement, a vertically integrated divisional infrastructure that includes the nation’s largest pre-college to college pipeline development program, the world’s only hip-hop urban arts scholarship program learning community, innovative campus-wide partnerships to enhance STEM achievement and faculty diversification, research centers, and a four-city partnership with the National Posse Foundation.

Damon has lectured at and been a consultant to more than 300 organizations and higher education institutions globally. He is a four-time scholar in residence for the Association of American Colleges and Universities.