Andrea B. Williams is a seasoned public interest lawyer and public policy
advocate with substantial experience in non‐profit project development and
management, leadership development, stakeholder and constituency building, advocacy campaign strategizing, strategic planning, and grant proposal/report writing. She is the Program Director for ReConnect, a leadership training program for formerly incarcerated women that is part of the Women in Prison Project at the Correctional Association of New York where she manages all aspects of the program including curriculum development, training, recruitment, and community outreach. Prior to joining the Correctional Association of New York, she was the Public Policy Coordinator at the HIV Law Project where she managed the advocacy training program for women living with HIV and AIDS. Andrea is a lawyer who has worked as a staff attorney at NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum) and Bergen County Legal Services in New Jersey. She has worked as a consultant for the Teachers Union Reform
Network, the Legal Action Center’s Women’s Initiative to Stop HIV/AIDS
(WISH), the New York AIDS Coalition, the ECQ Group and Community Impact Consulting (now Strategies for Social Change) and taught as an adjunct in the Women’s Studies Department at William Paterson University. She has a J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.

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