Ihudiya Finda Williams

Ihudiya Finda Williams is an assistant professor and the lead principal investigator of the Reimagining Equity and Accessibility in Computing for Humanity (REACH) Lab at Virginia Tech. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan on the topic of digital literacy development for formerly incarcerated individuals. More broadly, her research examines digital technology use among populations with low resources, highlights the injustices in existing systems that they use, and explores tech-enabled solutions to challenges they face. Prior to her Ph.D., she worked as a software engineer and product manager at Xerox, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the U.S. Department of State. Her work has been supported by the GEM Fellowship, Generation Google Scholarship, Microsoft Research Dissertation Fellowship, and the Rackham Graduate School Merit Fellowship. She is an alumnus of Rochester Institute of Technology and Harvard University.