THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!
From the 8th Annual Shorty Awards

Jesse Williams

Finalist in Activism

About Jesse Williams

After years of teaching high school African studies classes in Philadelphia (and, of course, acting, which was really more of a side career until his first role on Law & Order), Jesse Williams became the youngest member of the board of directors of the civil rights advocacy group The Advancement Project, and used that platform in 2015 to launch Question Bridge: Black Males, a multimedia project he executive produced that discusses the variations in black identity and how diversity within those communities needs to be discussed vis-a-vis race relations. In a multi-tiered Twitter essay, he also spoke out against the death of Sandra Bland to his one million followers.

Jesse Williams's best work on social

https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/623985645526986752 https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/623985468682604544 https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/624039502051303424 https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/625108818653876224 https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/623984781034811392