University of Illinois (UIC) Junior Bernadine Williams‘ mixed racial identity profoundly influences the ways in which she uses her own everyday experiences as the daughter of a black father and white mother to create a wide variety of narratives in preparation for a career in filmmaking and screenwriting.
Born Bernadine Julia, junior to her father Bernadi Julius, Williams was raised in what she described as “a small, wrecked Michigan town,” where she lived until the age of 10. At this juncture where she was no longer a young child but not quite a teenager yet, her family moved to a predominantly white suburb of Chicago.
Sarah J. Wotaszak 