H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams

H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams, PhD, MEd, is an internationally recognized thought leader in the areas of decoloniality and sacred sexuality. They are a bodeme in the tradition of the Dagara people of Ghana and Burkina Faso and a high priest in the Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) tradi- tion. They are currently a core faculty member in the BFA in socially engaged art program at Goddard College and an adjunct associate profes- sor in the graduate program in applied theatre in the School of Professional Studies at City Uni- versity of New York (CUNY). At Goddard College, they co-founded the world’s first sexuality studies program dedicated to promoting decol- onizing sexuality and challenging the whiteness and Eurocentricity of the field.