Allyson Williams

Biography

Allyson Ingrid Williams née Layne MBE (born 1947) is a retired midwife, lecturer, carnival masquerade band administrator and chair of the board of the Notting Hill Carnival. She is noted for standing up to racism in her professional life, and is notable for advocating for women in childbirth and for community midwifery as well as for her decades long support of West Indian culture in the UK, represented in particular by the Notting Hill Carnival.

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