Katrice Williams is a first-generation college student and a legal fellow with Ohio Legal Help. Her other full-time role involves caring for her two children, one of whom is her infant son who was born prematurely and contracted in E. coli infection in the NICU. After her son's near fatal infection, he developed serious neurological issues including infantile cerebral palsy, epilepsy, spasticity, severe developmental delay, hydrocephalus and cortical visual impairment, among others. Katrice fought for months to qualify her son for a Medicaid waiver, especially after numerous administrative appeals. Now, that her son has qualified for a Medicaid waiver, they have been in a months-long search to find a qualified pediatric skilled nurse for her son's in-home care. Finding that there are few nurses, Katrice has decided to attend nursing school, so she can be her son's paid parent caregiver and meet his complex needs. The scholarships she is pursuing will help toward her nursing school tuition, and certify her as a registered nurse. Bold scholarships that are exclusively for paying off student debt will help her pay off student loans that she accrued from her previous masters' degrees, and which she can no longer afford as she directs all of her finances and attention to her son. In the past, Katrice received a dual master’s degree in Social Administration and Nonprofit Organization from Case Western Reserve University, and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stanford University, California.

• Senior Criminal Justice Fellow

  Philanthropy · The Cleveland Foundation

  Jan 2021 – Present

• Advocacy
• Volunteering
• Philanthropy

• Powerlifting

  Club

  2016 – 2018

• Policy Associate

  ACLU of Ohio · Criminal Justice and Corrections, General

  2016 – 2017

  Research topic:

  Voting Rights, Pretrial Reform

• Program Officer 4

  Public Service (Politics) · Cuyahoga County Office of Reentry

  2018 – 2021

  Mission:

  Reintegration policy for people with criminal convictions