Carla Williams
Carla Williams is a Certified Peer Support Specialist, public speaker, communications and experiential strategist, and founder and executive director of The View From Here Wellness Collective, a community wellness organization creating culturally affirming spaces for Black women. Through workshops, community conversations, curated experiences, and the Black Women Deserve Podcast, Carla explores mental health, burnout, identity, pleasure, self-worth, and the ways race, gender, culture, and systems shape how we experience wellness. She holds a Master of Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and brings a storytelling and communications lens to her work. Carla was named a 2026 BRAVA Woman to Watch and has also been recognized by the Urban League of Greater Madison Young Professionals and the Black Women’s Leadership Conference.
In-Person | PM Session B
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
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Facilitated By: Carla Williams
Audience: Women and Women-Identifying folks (18+)
Who gets to be well, and what have women been taught to endure in the name of being women? This facilitated conversation explores how race, gender, culture, access, and other social conditions shape women’s experiences with health and wellness. Together, we’ll examine the roots of what women have been taught to normalize and imagine what wellness can look like when survival and endurance are no longer the standard.