Meet Keisha Williams, certainly one of 10 devoted Program Managers on the Arkansas Single Guardian Scholarship Fund (ASPSF). Since becoming a member of the staff in 2019, Keisha has performed a vital function in empowering single mother and father to attain their instructional objectives and construct brighter futures for his or her households.
As Program Supervisor, Keisha works behind the scenes and day by day on the entrance strains by supporting scholarship candidates, guiding recipients, and serving to single mother or father college students in Arkansas navigate the numerous challenges of faculty, work, and household.
Get to know Keisha a bit of bit extra within the Q&A under!
Metropolis: Maumelle
Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee
First day at ASPSF: August 1, 2019
Schooling: Bachelor of Arts in sociology from the College of Central Arkansas and a Grasp of Enterprise Administration from Webster College
Keisha Williams (proper) palms a scholarship verify to a pupil.
What do you do in your function as Program Supervisor?
As a Program Supervisor, quite a lot of my work entails reaching out to and recruiting new college students, in order that when these functions are available, I can assessment the functions and interview new college students. Additionally, quite a lot of my work revolves round attempting to enhance their lives, attempting to make issues a bit of bit simpler for them. As they graduate and go off into the world, ensuring that they’re ready, whether or not that’s by an interview workshop or a monetary literacy workshop, is so vital in strengthening the scholars’ expertise.
What do you like most in regards to the ASPSF mission?
Our mission right here at ASPSF is de facto simply to offer our college students with a hand up from poverty, to satisfy our college students proper the place they’re, and to offer them with the sources and the assist that they want. Plenty of the time, as a single mother or father, a lot of our college students really feel alone — they don’t see different folks of their lives going by the identical form of sacrifice to perform their objectives.
Keisha Williams (proper) coordinates scholarship ceremonies with volunteers.
Figuring out that I’m part of a company that may assist make college students’ lives just a bit bit simpler is heartwarming and fulfilling, and I actually simply get pleasure from my work. All of us have an effect on the lives of our single mother and father.
What’s your favourite ASPSF pupil story?
I meet quite a lot of wonderful college students semester after semester, however one pupil who stands out is Amiriah. Amiriah was a pupil who got here to our group when she was attending Pulaski Tech, however behind her thoughts, earlier than she had youngsters, she had this imaginative and prescient for herself to attend the College of Central Arkansas. After she was in a position to wrap up her affiliate diploma from Pulaski Tech, regardless of having three children and dealing a full-time job, she wished to pursue a few of her personal private objectives. It was vital for her to do what she had additionally envisioned for herself, and so regardless of the obstacles, she was in a position to begin at UCA and end inside two years. Her willpower, tenacity, and braveness to interrupt these boundaries for her children will all the time be a narrative that stands out to me. She made me so proud when she walked throughout that stage at UCA!
What’s a enjoyable truth about you?
I can write ahead and backward concurrently — mirror writing!
What three phrases greatest describe you?
Hardworking, creative, and honest.
What’s your proudest accomplishment?
Buying my dwelling.
What’s one of the best recommendation you’ve ever acquired?
“In the event you keep prepared, you by no means need to prepare.”
What are your hobbies?
I really like arts and crafts and attending sporting occasions.
Anything you’d wish to share?
I really like working at ASPSF!
Keisha Williams presents data at a scholarship Ceremony.
