Angileece Williams Recognized at Cleveland City Hall

On Monday, March 21, screenwriting contest winner, Angileece Williams `12, was recognized at a press conference by Mayor Frank Jackson. This press conference has received coverage on the Mayor’s website and in Scene Magazine.

In addition to the kind words shared by Mayor Jackson and writer-director and Angi’s collaborator, Malcolm D. Lee, Angi was recognized by Jill Paulsen of the Cleveland Foundation, Steph Wahome of Scenarios USA, and Saint Martin Theology Teacher, Ann Klonowski. Speaking in the Mayor’s Red Room, Ann Klonowski revealed why she has integrated Scenarios USA into her curriculum. “Saint Martin’s curriculum places great value on the dignity of the human person and respects the experiences that our students bring to their own education. Scenarios USA is a good fit with Saint Martin because their program gives our students a chance to put on those values of justice and human dignity and walk around in them, making sense of their own experience.”

Angileece Williams’s personal experience has included encountering young men who seem to be playing a role society has thrust upon them. She said in her remarks at City Hall that she had learned to accept young men as “tough, emotionless, overly confident, and violent” until Mrs. Klonowski’s theology class forced her to rethink this.

Angi’s reflections on the topic of masculinity became Life’s Poison, which Malcolm Lee described as “extraordinary work.” Mr. Lee and Angi will collaborate on this project throughout the spring and filming will take place in Cleveland in May. Angi hopes that her work “can inspire others and better their views on masculinity.”