Eugene Williams

Eugene Williams is an international consultant and activist in the fields of development and disability. He has worked for the United Nations in Angola and Zimbabwe, UNICEF in Brazil, and taught community-based rehabilitation for the World Health Organization in the Peoples Republic of China.

He has also worked in Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Mexico (Proyeto PROJIMO), Nicaragua, El Salvador, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, and has volunteered in the Khmer refugee camps in Thailand. He has specialized for eighteen years in Brazil, where he was a Fulbright Fellow from 1988-90. Domestically, Eugene has worked for Rehabilitation International, World Institute on Disability and directed the Peer Counseling Program at an Independent Living Center in Massachusetts.

He has a B.A. from Harvard University (Afro-American Studies), a M. Ed. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Future Studies) and is completing his doctoral dissertation at the Center for International Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst on grassroots movements for low-cost housing in São Paulo, Brazil. His areas of interest include community development, popular and nonformal education, grassroots popular movements, primary health care and community-based rehabilitation. He speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish and very bad French. Fun is downhill skiing, samba, music, dance, art and gardening. After growing up in Germany and Washington, D.C., Eugene has settled in the hills of Conway, Massachusetts.