She joined the faculty at UIW in August 2016 after spending seven years as a faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Dr. Williams earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology at UTHSCSA in 2009. Her dissertation research focused on the molecular mechanisms involved in T cell tolerance to the acetyl-choline receptor, the autoantigen in Myasthenia gravis.