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Zonta Club of Birmingham – August Club Meeting
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Join us for an engaging and informative meeting as we welcome Tari Williams, Organizing Director at Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM), as our featured guest speaker!
Tari will share insights into GBM’s vital work in the Birmingham community and how they are advancing social justice, economic equity, and systemic change through grassroots organizing and advocacy.
Whether you’re a Zonta Club member or simply curious to learn more about GBM’s mission, this is a meeting you won’t want to miss!
Come be inspired. Come get involved. Come make a difference.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Agenda
11:30 am Networking & Lunch ($) RSVP Required
12:00 pm Business Meeting (open to attendees)
12:30 pm Guest Presentation
Meet our Speaker – TARI WILLIAMS
Tari Williams is Organizing Director at Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM). She utilizes her skills and knowledge as a former prosecutor former law professor community organizer and a directly impacted individual to speak advocate and educate on issues related to criminal justice reform restoration of voting rights civic engagement and others. In her role as Organizing Director she not only leads GBM’s clients staff board and volunteers in organizing around systems change and justice issues; she is also responsible for grassroots leadership development coalition building and spearheading special projects that bridge the 3 tenets of GBM’s mission – building community pursuing justice and serving people.
Tari has maintained a nearly 20-year career in the field of justice work. She has held positions with The Empowerment Alliance and the University of Alabama School of Law where she was an Adjunct Professor and Assistant Dean of Public Interest Law. She is a former member of the Alabama Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
Tari also holds substantial experience in community organizing and leadership development. She earned a certificate from Harvard’s Kennedy School in Leadership Organizing and Action: Creating Change. She was a Facilitator for Alabama Organizing Project’s Grassroots Leadership Development Program and Member of Just Leadership USA Leading with Conviction Fellow Class of 2017.
Tari has also been utilizing her voice and expertise to bolster voter restoration efforts in Alabama:
Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien – https://matteroffact.tv/ex-felons-call-voter-limitations al-modern-day-poll-tax/
Too poor to vote: How Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/too_poor_to_vote_how_alabamas.html
In wake of reports Alabama clarifies that some felons can vote despite debts https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/in_wake_of_reports_alabama_cla.html
Tari received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Maryland in 1992 and her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1998.
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