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Congratulations to damon williams and karina wadegolden on their book, the chief diversity officer. Williams is the author of strategic diversity leadership 4. Williams, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the university of wisconsin at madison. He delivers a blueprint of approaches to activating diversity plans, creating meaningful chief diversity officer roles, fostering accountability, and avoiding the pitfalls of leading change efforts on college and university campuses. Damon williams on how to move the needle on campus diversity. When we actually sat down to write the definition of diversity in chapter three of strategic diversity leadership, what we found was that visiting different institutions, if you had 20 people in the room, you get 20 different definitions. A response from damon williams, viceprovost for diversity and climate.