Ms. Williams is a doctoral student in Public Administration at the University of Kansas. Her scholarly research focuses on administrative law, environmental policy, and immigration policy. She is interested in the effects of climate change on the mitigation and adaption policies of local and state governments and comparative immigration and immigrant policies and the process through which immigrant policies are carried out by bureaucratic agencies. Ms. Williams is a National Science Foundation IGERT fellow with the Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment IGERT Fellowship program at KU.

She has a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Kansas and a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Truman State University. As a graduate teaching assistant, she has taught courses on project management and public policy analysis. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a project and program manager for private sector information technology companies. She served as the graduate research assistant for Dr. Goodyear during this study.