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Born and raised within walking distance of the great Niagara Falls on the New York side of the international border with Canada, Bill is one of eight children, the first born son of William and Jane Bradberry. He has six sisters and a brother.

Bill attended local parochial schools in Niagara Falls (Our Lady of the Rosary and Bishop Duffy High School) until he moved to San Antonio, Texas where he lived for three years with his great uncle Lonnie and Aunt Maudie Bradberry.

Bill’s interest in state and local governance and in the implementation of legal policy led him to specialize in those areas throughout his academic pursuits as well as his professional career.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree at Niagara University, and his Juris Doctor at the State University of New York Law School.

Bill also studied Constitution Litigation with famed Civil Rights attorneys, Arthur Kinoy and Bill Kunstler at Rutgers’s University Law School’s Center for Constitutional Law.

Bill wrote a weekly column called Black Menagerie for the University’s student newspaper, the INDEX. Forty years later, it was published weekly by the Niagara Falls Reporter for over five years and carried on-line, reaching hundreds of thousands around the world.

In 2006 Bill began writing Back Home With Bill Bradberry with another Niagara Falls newspaper, the Niagara Falls Gazette; the city’s oldest surviving daily news publication, now also published on-line via the internet.

After he graduated from law school, Bill continued to work in the public sector, first as the Director of Equal Employment Opportunity for the City of Niagara Falls and later in the same position for Erie County, New York before he was named Director of Neighborhood Revitalization by the Mayor of Buffalo. A year later he was tapped by the Governor to become the Deputy Regional Director of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal.

Two years later Bill relocated to Florida where he was appointed Director of the Area Planning Board for Palm Beach County, Florida.

He then served as a consultant to the Law Department at the MacArthur Foundation where he advised the Foundation on land use and environment regulation policy through his consulting firm, Urban Systems Associates.

Returning to the public sector, he then created and operated a specialized civil litigation team which streamlined case preparation for the establishment and enforcement of child support cases for the State of Florida’s Department of Revenue.

In 2005, he formed the Niagara Movement Foundation, and returned to his hometown, Niagara Falls, New York where he currently resides.

He serves as a consultant to Niagara University’s Castellani Museum Underground Railroad Regional Interpretive Center known as the Freedom Crossing Exhibition.

A member of the City’s Tourism Advisory Board, Bill serves as Chairman of the Cultural Heritage and Entertainment Committee.

He is also a member of the Niagara County Historical Society Board of Directors and is an active member of the Board of Directors of the City’s Niagara Arts and Cultural Center where he is Chairman of the Music Festivals Committee.

In addition, Bill is a Commissioner on the Niagara Falls Human Rights Commission, and is President of the Niagara Falls Historic Preservation Society, and in March, 2007 he became City Administrator for Niagara Falls, New York.

The author of My Strange Black History, Black Menagerie and numerous published articles as a weekly columnist for the Niagara Falls Gazette, and former Contributing Editor at the Niagara Falls Reporter, Bill is active around the country as a speaker on the Underground Railroad and advocate for social change through public policy advocacy, litigation and media diversity.