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While healthcare is rarely the first thing that comes to mind when most Americans think about Black History Month, Assistant Professor of Law Thomas Williams knows that the state of healthcare among Black Americans stems from a history of marginalization. His recent work considers the role entrepreneurs can play in the mitigation of health inequities and disparities.

“My research is the convergence of thinking about questions of health equity, but adding a lens of small firm entrepreneurship and the ways in which we may have failed to acknowledge the possibilities of innovative and disruptive structures that might mitigate health disparities,” he said. “Black History Month gives us this opportunity to really set ourselves and do some deep work and deep thinking about questions of health equity not only in the current moment but to reach back and to understand that they are born of complicated deep historical ties to larger forms of this discrimination and marginalization.”