{"id":9021,"date":"2022-05-12T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences-new\/people\/jmwill24\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:07:14","slug":"jessica-williams","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/people\/jessica-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Williams, MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"il\">Jessica<\/span> Williams serves as the graduate certificate coordinator and public communication specialist for the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences. She is also the instructor for the AEHS 510 course, which is the supervised professional experience course for Family and Community Sciences students. Jessica is a graduate of our Family Life and Youth Development Master&#8217;s program (the inaugural class!) and has over 15 years of experience in youth, family, and community programming.\u00a0 Prior to her current role, she worked at Johnston County Industries, where she most recently served as program coordinator, overseeing an expansive internship and workforce development program. Her responsibilities included managing grants, advising interns\/clients, and partnering with local organizations to increase internship and professional development opportunities for young people. Jessica holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Family and Community Services from East Carolina University. <span class=\"il\">She<\/span> is from Pembroke, NC, but currently lives in Knightdale and is a member of the Lumbee Tribe.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Jessica<\/span> and her husband Robbie have three boys (David, Dylan, and Dakota), and she enjoys traveling, reading, going to sporting events and baking.<\/div>\n<h2>Programs and Initiatives<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Agricultural Education and Human Sciences Graduate Program<\/li>\n<li>Graduate School Professional Development Liaison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Primary Teaching Responsibilities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AEHS 510: Supervised Professional Experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contributing Websites<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/\">https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Professional Honors\/Offices\/Recognitions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2026: Cornerstone Award, NC&#160;State Staff Senate<\/li>\n<li>2024: Pride of the Wolfpack, NC&#160;State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":3285,"featured_media":12483,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[135],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9021","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/9021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/9021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180106,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/9021\/revisions\/180106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/agricultural-and-human-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}