Bio

Virginia Williams was born in New York City, the youngest of seven siblings. Both her parents were writers and encouraged her love of art, photography, and storytelling.

Virginia is a multiple Emmy Award-winning producer who has written and produced a wide variety of news feature and documentary specials for national broadcast and cable networks. Most recently she produced and directed FRONTRUNNER, an independent documentary about Massouda Jalal's heroic run for the presidency of Afghanistan.

In 2006 she produced Quiet Revolution, a multi-platform documentary designed to educate law students and activists about an extremist political movement greatly affecting the courts and interpretation of the US Constitution. Hosted by Bradley Whitford and featuring Barack Obama, the 23-minute doc was featured in American University's 2007 Center for Social Media's "Making Your Documentary Matter" workshop.

She was Series Producer for the popular HGTV Series I Want That. She was Supervising Producer and Writer of The National Geographic Channel Series Action Asia Challenge, and Producer and Writer of Asian Enigma: The Lost City of Dwarka for TLC. In 1999, she produced and co-directed Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery, for the Discovery Channel. She won an ITVA Best Director award for this film that presents an eerie, investigative-look into the mystery and intrigue surrounding London's most notorious serial killer. That same year, she had the opportunity to go back to her former Peace Corps home to produce a one-hour segment of Discovery Channel's Eco-Challenge Morocco, which received an Emmy Award for sports programming.

In the areas of social media and advocacy, NEW VIEW FILMS produces and manages multi-plaform digital campaigns for clients such as the Peace Corps, Centers for Disease Control, the FDA and USAID.

One of Virginia's most successful campaigns was a 10- minute documentary and web stream she produced for Oxygen.com and the CDC. Hosted by Christy Turlington, Women and Tobacco: The Seven Deadly Myths presented the dangers of smoking to women in an entertaining, provocative way. She has also produced award-winning public service campaigns for organizations such as the Whitman Walker Clinic, The Alliance to End Homelessness, and the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence.

While earning her Masters in Film and Video Production at The American University in Washington, DC, Virginia worked in the Peace Corps communications office, and then became a producer for FOX Television's reality series America's Most Wanted. She was also staff segment producer and periodic show producer for FOX's syndicated series, Not Just News- described as a kind of 'Dateline meets MTV' for kids.

Virginia resides in San Francisco, CA.