YLAI Professional Fellows Program, Class of 2016

Miguel 'Steppa' Williams works as a social outreach specialist, adjunct lecturer, motivational speaker, creative writer and dub poet. He is the founder and a director of the Forward Step Foundation, a NGO catering to the needs of high risk youth and communities. Steppa serves as a programmer and life coach in several of Jamaica's adult and juvenile correctional centers. He is a behaviour modification trainer who works in areas of community safety and security, gang reduction, re-integration and rehabilitation. Steppa is particularly talented at applying creative therapy and the advocacy model in areas of social enterprise development.