Episode 23| Dr. Ashley Williams
In This Episode | Policy that Protects Our Babies
Dr. Theo and Dr. Jaqui speak with Dr. Ashley about her work teaching Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers to truly serve Black and Brown babies, developing ECE policy, and how her work connects to her childhood in South Central Los Angeles.
Recorded: June 26, 2021
Guest Bio
Dr. Ashley C. Williams
Dr. Ashley C. Williams is the Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley. In her role, she tracks, analyzes, and translates state and national ECE policy development with a particular focus on issues related to the early education workforce. She has almost 20 years of experience in ECE as a preschool teacher, a director, and a teacher educator at the undergraduate and master’s levels. Overall, Dr. Ashley’s daily work and research are rooted in contributing to ECE systems in ways that explicitly reveal, dissolve, and resolve systemic inequities that cause harm to children, families, and the educators that work with them- especially when they are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. She earned her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at SF State where she also earned her BA in Child and Adolescent Development and an M.A.Ed. with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education.
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Mentionings & Shoutouts
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley
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