Gordon S. Williams is the Lamar University Television Studio Operations Manager. He is an award-winning content creator whose projects have screened at over seventy film festivals and earned distribution deals from entities such as Amazon Video and Shorts International. In June 2023, he received a “Special Congressional Recognition” from United States Representative Brian Babin for his work in sharing Beaumont’s Black history via the short film, “The Example” and the documentary, “They Will Talk About Us: The Charlton-Pollard Story.”

In July 2024, these projects were added to the collection at The Black Film & Cinema Archive at Indiana University. The Black Film Center & Archive is the only archival repository in the world that is wholly dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films by and about Black people.

Gordon is a board member of the Boomtown Film Festival, the Center for Culture and History of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast, and an advisor for the Jefferson County Historical Commission.