Thank You, Khalif Williams!

For 8 1/2 years, the Institute for Humane Education (IHE), the organization I co-founded in 1996, has been blessed by Khalif Williams. He joined our organization as an office manager and development director in 2002, and two years later became our executive director. Khalif has not only been a tremendous asset to our organization and a humane education leader, but also my dear friend.

Khalif is stepping down as executive director to become the interim director at the Bay School – a school you may be familiar with if you read my blog regularly, because I’ve taught week-long humane education blocks to the middle schoolers for the last several years and have written about my experiences with the wonderful kids there in my blog and in my book, Most Good, Least Harm. It’s a fabulous school, and Khalif will be a wonderful director. He has longed to work directly with kids in a school for some time, and so I’m very excited for him, even though we are so sad to see him leave his position at IHE. Fortunately, he will be joining our board of directors, so he will still remain in a leadership role here.

I wanted to write this tribute to Khalif publicly because I feel so grateful to have been his partner at IHE for all these years and to honor the great contribution he has made to the field of humane education by furthering this important work. Khalif has such extraordinary qualities, and I’ve been so lucky to work with him. He is kind and generous, direct and clear-headed, poetic and wise, and incredibly smart. He is an amazing father and husband and leader and friend. Thank you Khalif. I wish you great success at the Bay School!

Zoe Weil
Author of Most Good, Least Harm and The Power and Promise of Humane Education

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