DR. ONEEKA is a urologic surgeon who made her way from a childhood in Guyana and Barbados to an education at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
As one of the less than five per cent of urologic surgeons in the United States who are female, Dr. Williams has lived through the challenges of pursuing a dream in a field where very few people looked like her. In fact, the most common response that she encounters when she enters the exam room is, “You don’t look like a surgeon.”

She is even more distressed that many elementary school children believe that scientists are “old white men in spectacles,” and that fewer than three per cent of published children’s books feature characters of color.
Never one to let a problem slip by unchallenged, Dr. Williams began writing books that provide a strong positive and powerful multicultural image for all children but especially girls and kids of color.

Enter Dee Dee Dynamo, a nine-year-old girl super surgeon who jets around the universe fixing problems with her gifted hands. Now after four Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo publications, Dr. Williams continues practicing medicine, sharing her love of science with groups of eager elementary-schoolers and dreaming up new adventures for Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo.
Dr. Williams is a distinguished urologic surgeon at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Assistant Clinical Professor at Tufts Medical School, and on the Board of Overseers at the Museum of Science. She lives in Newtown with her husband Charles Anderson and their 10-year son.