Patricia Williams, mother of Public Advocate JumaaneWilliams is a well known community activist in Brooklyn. She is a retired medical rep for a local drug company, and has spent her free time traveling extensively, modeling, playing her beloved [...]
“I stick up for whatever I think is not right and even though I have bad knees I will go out there and demonstrate or join some movement,” said Williams.
In the U.S., Williams ended up majoring in pharmacy at Howard University in D.C., inspired by her father’s profession. She later got married and her husband was doing his residency at Harlem Hospital. They settled in Brooklyn in 1975. Williams started out at a local pharmacy for a short while before becoming a medical rep. She worked for the lab for 31 years. “I am not the type of person who likes to be in one place,” said Williams. “Being a rep was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Williams and her husband had two children, Jeanine and Jumaane. Her daughter is a nurse practitioner working in Harlem at a community clinic, she said. Her son is a former council member and the city’s public advocate. He recently made a bid for governor of New York as well.
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