Bisa Williams Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

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Bisa Williams is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Niger from 2011 to 2014. She was born in 1954 in Trenton, New Jersey. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science. Williams began her career in the United States Foreign Service in 1982. She has served in various diplomatic posts in Africa, including in Senegal, Nigeria, and South Africa. She was appointed as the United States Ambassador to Niger in 2011 and served until 2014. Williams is married to fellow diplomat, John E. Lange, and they have two children. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy.

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Bisa Williams (born 1954) is the former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Republic of Niger in Niamey. She assumed the post on October 29, 2010. She left her post in 2013.

Prior to being assigned to Niamey, Bisa Williams, then U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, participated in a September 2009 six-day trip to Cuba in an attempt to improve bilateral relations. During the trip she met with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez Barrera, worked on restoring direct mail service between the two countries, and toured parts of western Cuba hit by Hurricane Ike. She also invited dissidents to a reception at the United States Interests Section in Havana.

Her nomination to be United States Ambassador to Niger was sent to the United States Senate on November 30, 2009, and she assumed the post in Niamey eleven months later, on October 29, 2010. She left her post in 2013.

Bisa Williams is a career foreign service officer, having joined the Foreign Service in 1984. Her previous overseas postings include Port Louis, Mauritius; Paris, France and Panama City, Panama. Her first overseas assignment was in Port Louis, Mauritius, a mission that also covers Seychelles and Comoros, where she served as Deputy Chief of Mission under Ambassador John Price.

Bisa Williams was born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Her father Dr. Paul T. Williams was a general surgeon while her mother Eloise Owens Williams was a social worker and later a professor of Social Work at the College of New Jersey. Her sister, Ntozake Shange, was a playwright best known for writing the Broadway play "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf". Her other sister, Ifa Bayeza, is also a playwright, who co-wrote the multi-generational novel, Some Sing, Some Cry, with her sister Shange. She received as Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College, where she graduated in 1976 cum laude with honors distinctions in Black Literature of the Americas. She later received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, and a second MA from the University of California, Los Angeles in comparative literature.