PROFESSOR WILLIAMS MAKES A VIRTUAL VISIT TO PENN STATE HEALTH TO COMMEMORATE JUNETEENTH
June 2023 — Professor Sarah Williams participated in a hybrid celebration of Juneteenth, hosted by Penn State Health’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on June 19, 2023. She was joined by Dr. Joyce Davis, from the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, in reflecting on the meaning and significance of the holiday. Professor Williams participated in an engaging discussion with Dr. Davis and attendees from Penn State Health and Penn State Dickinson Law. Topics discussed ranged from the racial wealth gap to reparations. The event was a sincere celebration of that day in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863 and ending slavery in Confederate states, was enforced by military action in Galveston Bay, Texas.
Sarah J. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law with over 25 years of experience as a securities regulator. She has served as Deputy Director at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Commissioner’s Counsel and Enforcement Branch Chief at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Associate General Counsel at NASD (now FINRA). She previously authored “The Alchemy of Effective Auditor Regulation,” 25 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 1089 (2022), and “Regulatory Personhood: The Elixir for Redundancy Between the SEC and the PCAOB,” forthcoming 97 ST. JOHN’S L. REV. (2023).