Williams Hires Vice President of Diversity and Equity
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College has appointed Leticia Smith-Evans to the position of vice president for institutional diversity and equity. She will assume the position on July 1.
Smith-Evans brings considerable experience in working to expand diversity and equity in educational settings, including from her current position as interim director of the Education Practice of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. At the LDF, where she ha’s served since 2008, she has worked both on the ground level with communities around the country that want or need to change and on managing the education practice of an organization that has played a historic role in the advancement of equity.
She also teaches on race, education, and the law at Penn Law School; speaks on these issues to audiences across the country; and is often quoted in national media.
Smith-Evans earned her Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where her dissertation was titled "No More Profiling in the Classroom: A Midsize Urban School District’s Efforts to Close the Achievement Gap." She also obtained her J.D. at Wisconsin. Many within the Williams community know her as a member of the Class of 1999 and an active member of the Williams Black Alumni Network.
After law school she clerked for the Honorable Dickinson Debevoise ’46 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and then was an associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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