Alicin Williamson

Biography

Alicin Williamson leads The Raben Group’s New York office where she draws on her diverse experience conceiving of and managing large-scale initiatives in government affairs, media strategy, employee engagement, brand reputation and communications to help advance her clients’ missions. Diversity and inclusion play a central role in Alicin’s own mission, and she is a leader in that work for the Raben Group. Her clients range multinational corporations to national and local non-profit organizations. Alicin partners with client senior leadership and management on vision alignment, thought leadership, and diversity and inclusion. Among many efforts she helped craft Airbnb’s original public policy strategy and their diversity work as well as worked with the board of NAMIC to create systems change and organizational redesign as they experienced a leadership transition.  Alicin has led projects developing and implementing communications plans regarding key issues on diversity both externally and internally. AnchorPrior to joining Raben, Alicin built her career fostering public affairs and corporate social responsibilities initiatives. She served as a Senior VP at MTV Networks and Viacom where she created the company’s Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs department and helped build the Office of Global Inclusion to increase company visibility in diverse communities and aid diversity recruitment efforts. Alicin also partnered with Viacom Government Affairs building coalition between advocacy groups and corporate relations in support of the company’s legislative agenda and oversaw employee engagement. As a program director and Senior Program Officer at The Fund for the City of New York, Alicin provided technical assistance and capacity building to city agencies and non profit youth serving organizations. Alicin has been recognized with a commendation from the City of New York for women’s leadership, induction to the YWCA Academy of Women Leaders, and a “Woman of Influence” award from Essence Magazine and several recognitions from the cable and telecommunications industry. Alicin serves on the board executive committees of the New York Urban League, Food Research and Action Center and as board chair of All Souls School. She previously was on the board of NAMIC and the USO. 

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