Vanessa
Hayes-Williams

Vanessa Hayes-Williams is a Pickerington Local Schools resident, who continues to serve as an educational advocate that prides herself on bringing equitable learning experiences to all.  Vanessa is a passionate educational visionary that believes in fostering a shared leadership approach that is key to personal enrichment, citizenship, and connection.  The evidence of this is reflected in her own pathways of conferred degrees from Indiana University, Indiana Wesleyan, and her current Doctoral candidacy work focused on Education Leadership and Management. Her strength in family engagement is equally shared by her community advocate husband, Carl Williams, their high schooler, college daughter, and two college graduate children.   

 

Vanessa possesses strong social and emotional learning competencies that help to further her advocacy work that supports professional and educational learning communities which involve equitable discipline, understanding the impact of trauma in school climates, practicing inclusive support of cultures that make up communities, developing stronger scholar-athletes and mentorships.   Due to her Teamsters legacy, her strong family values have afforded her the ability to provide fundamentally sound recommendations or bridge areas of support that often align with the mission, vision, and goals of the public entity or organization.  She has found that this way of doing business has also served her well in developing collaborative learning environments, promoting transparency, accountability and engaging the community in building pillars of service.  

 

Vanessa has over 30 years of working within the public sector in professional development, organizational change, and program management on the behalf of the public good.  Her service profile includes Adult Corrections, Community Development, Social Welfare, Educational Teaching & Learning, and Citizenship & Community Engagement. Her volunteerism efforts also demonstrate her commitment to education, leadership, and community.  Those efforts include School Board membership & leadership, Suffocate Parent for students with disabilities, multi-parent advocacy parent group, Pickerington Local School Citizen Advisory Committee as the key communicator, social and emotional learning coaching, Freedom School Literacy partner, Educator, Caregiver, and Concerned Citizen.   Vanessa is passionate about the job of serving and compassionate about the people she serves as she continues to seek opportunities to make a footprint in Redefining Tomorrow Together. 

 

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Thank you for your support!

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Vanessa Hayes-Williams

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