DaKisha Payne Williams has been in the educational field since 1999 primarily as a classroom teacher and instructor. She holds educational degrees from Winston-Salem State University (BS), University of Phoenix (MA.Ed) and High Point University (M.Ed) and has conducted several professional development trainings and workshops throughout the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School system. She recently earned her principal license and is preparing to enter the administrative side of the profession.

The North Carolinian transplant works to be a part of the spaces where her voice and the voices of those like hers is acknowledged respected and considered essential in an effort to shift the entire educational atmosphere.