Teshanee Williams
Teshanee Williams is the Robert W. Bradshaw Jr. Distinguished Assistant Professor at the School of Government. She is an expert on nonprofit management, public management, nonprofit and local government partnerships, and community engagement. Williams's research interests include the application of mixed-method approaches for inquiries related to strategic alliances between nonprofits and the public sector as well as public participation in decision-making processes. In her role at the School, in addition to advising on nonprofit and local government relations, Williams instructs in the UNC MPA program—teaching courses on nonprofit management, research methods, and program evaluation—and conducts research on nonprofit-local government relations and issues of social equity.
She joined the School of Government in 2021. Previously, she received a UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Postdoctoral Program Faculty Diversity Fellowship and served as a research fellow with the UNC School of Government from 2019–2021. Her career goal is to produce research that helps to bridge the divide between theory and practice.
Williams earned her MPA and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University.