Alicin Williamson's clients include Airbnb, Nextions, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Alicin most recently served as the senior vice president of public affairs and corporate responsibility for MTV Networks. While at MTV Networks, which is made up of MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Logo, and Vh1, she crafted award-winning public affairs initiatives and strategies. As an executive advisor for global inclusion, Alicin helped guide the company’s diversity agenda and developed strategies to create movements through multimedia. Key to her work has been building creative funding and strategic partnerships with foundations, non-profit organizations, corporations and government agencies.
In 2010, Alicin helped raise $66 million for Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake, and her work in disseminating the grants was widely praised. Prior to MTV Networks, Alicin was a program officer and project director at the Fund for the City of New York, an operating foundation that builds capacity for both NYC non-profit organizations and city government agencies. She began her career in Washington working with the Children’s Defense Fund on youth development and education issues.
Alicin serves on the boards of the USO and the New York Urban League and is the former board chair of the National Association of Multi-ethnicity in Communications, the cable industry’s diversity organization. A Tufts University graduate, she is an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Alicin is also fluent in Spanish and conversant in Italian.
