Martissa Allie Williams is a writer, liberation worker and speaker from Detroit, MI. She is the founder of NEKKID, an organization providing programming and resources for a radically free future through self-transformation. Along with hosting prominent authors and thought leaders on the NEKKID Conversations podcast, Martissa has appeared as a guest on multiple podcasts, TV programs, blogs, and panels: The Modern Spirituality Podcast with Ben Decker (2022), Wild Fed Podcast with Daniel Vitalis (2020), Closed Loop Kitchen (2020), WXXI’s Need to Know with Hélène Biandudi Hofer (2019) and Roc Girl Gang Race + Entrepreneurship Panel (2018).

Martissa was awarded a 2023 Room Project Fellowship. She has been published in the Spring 2023 Issue of Homegrown Sourcebook and the anthology, Dimepiece: A 10-Year Celebration of CLI.

Martissa studied Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester. Her writing and political praxis were formed at the intersections of her spiritual faith, Queer Black American identity, and ancestral connection. Her work is largely autobiographical, punctuated by cultural critique, and evokes universal themes of longing, ancestry, and connection to the natural world.