Randy Williams
Utah Humanities Board of Trustees
Board Vice President, Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection
Biography
A folklorist & ethnographer, Randy Williams is emerita faculty at Utah State University where she served as the Fife Folklore Archives Curator and Oral History Specialist at USU Libraries for twenty-six years and was affiliated Folklore Program faculty. Williams partners with community scholars to ethically collect, preserve, and present the voices of excluded communities.
She was project director of Voices from Drug Court: Cache Valley Drug Court Oral History Project (USU: 2017) and Project Co-Director (and PI) of Informing the National Narrative: Stories of Utah’s Opioid Crisis, an oral history effort (USU: 2020). Williams currently serves on the Utah Humanities Board of Trustees and as board vice president for Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection.