Madi WilliamsonVolunteer Diaries: I am CriminalizedA year ago I was apprehended while on vacation in Greece visiting friends and family. I didn’t know it at the time, but this incident would…6 min read·May 16, 2022----
Madi WilliamsonVolunteer Diaries: Fieldwork“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.4 min read·Jun 30, 2021----
Madi WilliamsonInauguration Day Thoughts: We Need Your Empathetic ImaginationJust imagine, for a moment, that your only option for safety is to push forward through a gauntlet of dangerous pathways towards a very…5 min read·Jan 20, 2021----
Madi WilliamsonVolunteer Diaries: Passports and Privilege and the Return to a Place You no Longer BelongThis is one of the most deeply personal things I have ever written and posted from the photo to the text. I truly am heartbroken that I am…4 min read·Mar 5, 2020----
Madi WilliamsonAction Item: The Healing of Generations of Global Trauma Starts Now with You and with MeTo this day, not one representative of the state has come forward and made an inspired effort to HEAL the generations of trauma that…9 min read·Jun 24, 2019----
Madi WilliamsonLeaving EdenThe Dean of my nursing program closed our first orientation session with this piece of advice. “How do we eat an apple? Do we shove the…8 min read·Nov 3, 2017----
Madi WilliamsonDiscovering LoveSwipe. Swipe. Swipe. I was sitting on the sidewalk next to a railroad track that had not seen any traffic in months. My feet were planted…9 min read·Mar 22, 2017----
Madi WilliamsonDecember 12th, Let it not Happen AgainTo the world, This is the deepest day of grief I have ever experienced in my life. We are mourning the loss of my sweet grandfather, Tosh…5 min read·Jan 5, 2017----
Madi Williamson2016: The Year of the Loss of Apathy2016: The Year of the Loss of Apathy4 min read·Dec 15, 2016----
Madi WilliamsonAn open letter to my state representatives and politicians all over the globeMy name is Madi Williamson. I am a 21-year-old student from Bainbridge Island, Washington. I was raised in safety by a loving and healthy…4 min read·Nov 20, 2016----