Biography
Rudi Quammie Williams, is a consultant with many decades of experience in a variety of businesses, including Organizational Development, Change Management and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He was project manager for the Canadian Institute for People of African Descent (CIPAD) feasibility study, Quammie is a mentor to youth, community businesses, organizations and individuals. He is a business consultant and facilitator with a passion for non-profits, community, entrepreneurship and small business.
Quammie has a long history of service to the public through his work in various levels of government and in a number of community serving organizations. In addition to his love of business and dedication to creating strong qualified leadership, sustainable community serving organizations and a community that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion and is free of anti-Black racism, Quammie is a multi-disciplinary artist who specializes in the use of arts and culture in African centred learning opportunities. In addition to his study of African and Caribbean drumming traditions, he has dedicated his career to amongst other things the re-education of the African-Canadian community on the value of their ancestral instruments, the African drums.
Quammie is a graduate of York University’s Fine Arts and MBA Programs and has contributed his artistic skills and knowledge of the drums to the music of Joe Sealy, Judy Mowatt, The Parachute Club, Martha and the Muffins, Dr. John and many others. He is a co-founder of Ujima Fathering Centres, a non-profit organization serving African Canadian fathers and potential fathers by supporting them in their journeys to being committed and involved in the lives of their children.