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Aleichia Celestina Williams is New York born Afro-Latina writer, director, and cultural historian who joined Epsilon Theory as a Digital Content Writer in 2025.

She received a Bachelor of Science in History at Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi, where her studies focused on media, culture, and gender. She later received a Master of Science degree in History at the University of Edinburgh, where she researched the themes that connect humanity across cultures. During her time in Edinburgh, she participated and helped run the Artists of Color Meet Up and the prestigious Fringe Festival. She also assisted in promotional work for the several times sold out show “Black Is the Color of My Voice.”

Williams began sharing her thoughts publicly in 2015 with "Too Latina to Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina." The article received millions of reads and progressed her career as a writer. For several years Williams wrote as a part of the Huffington Post’s Latino Voices Blog Team. Aleichia Celestina Williams’s published work can be found at the New Yorker, Oxford University Press, and the Huffington Post, among other publications. Williams gained international acclaim when noted in lists such as the “Top Afro-Latina writers,” "The Most Important Writing from People of Color," and “Powerful Blogs by Latinas to Empower Women Everywhere.”

In 2018 she directed and produced the film, Uncut: Not so Black and White, a short film that provides her personal experience as a victim of police brutality.  In 2023 she was awarded a grant at the Chateau d'Orquevaux Artists and Writers Residency in France for the screenplay adaption of her debut novel, WHICH ONE OF YOU MOTHERF*CKERS IS MY SOULMATE.

She’s also the director and writer of the short film, MARCELLINA, the fictionalized historic short film about an Afro-Latina numbers game boss set during the Harlem Renaissance. The film stars supermodel Aweng Chuol and is based on a short blurb Williams found about Marcellina Cardena while studying the Harlem Renaissance. Additionally, Williams wrote and directed ROMANCE READER, a film about two book lovers coming together which stars MTV’s Saloni Chopra.

Prior to joining The Epsilon Theory Wiliams was contracted to Google’s extended workforce, training AI on how to write. Previous to this, she ran a summer academic program at Yale University. Williams spent several years working in business immigration law, notably at global leading law firm, Fragomen with BlackRock as her client. Although she is grateful for her time working in law, she ultimately decided not to pursue a J.D. (yet), and preferred to find work following her passion as a writer instead.