Tanishia Williams

Specializing in urban politics at the intersection of race, gender, and class, Tanishia Lavette Williams obtained a Ph.D. from the Public and Urban Policy program from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School. She currently serves as the Inaugural Education Stratification Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. She previously served as a Critical Race Theory Senior Research Fellow with the African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia University. Tanishia’s scholarship examines how racism permeates systems through existing legal structures that buttress the subordination of minorities through racialized hierarchies.