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Williamson's music and activism have taken her down many roads where she has touched and been touched by a rainbow of people. She was honored with the Parent's Choice Award in 1982, Cable Car Award for Outstanding Artist in 1983 and 1990, the State of California Honor Award for Outstanding Performer and Musician in 1988, and in 1995 at the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards, Williamson received the First Annual Michael Callen Award for outstanding service in the gay and lesbian community. In 1991 she and Fure founded In The Best Interests Of The Children, a pediatric AIDS organization. Today ITBIC thrives as part of Boston's Children's Hospital. Williamson has also been involved with the Navajo Women's Weaving project, a group directed by elder Dine women who are making a stand to save the sacred Big Mountain area of their homeland as well as their language, culture and ceremonial life. "My heart is with them," Williamson said of this group of determined elders.
Cris Williamson has played Carnegie Hall three times; she has toured around the world; this spiritual poet and singer has been a Changer and has been Changed. With so many accomplishments already behind her, I wondered what goals she saw for herself as we embark into this new millennium and where she would hope to be in ten years with regards to her music and philosophy. Referring to Carnegie Hall she said, "It might be fun to do it again, and gather women and men from all over the world to this one place on any given night." The rest of her answer was classic Cris. "In ten years I hope I am still working, still being received, still viable in all ways as a Human Being. I still hope to be learning, ever questing on this Path, in this Mystery." That is the Song and Soul of the Changer.
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