Ms. Williams has direct and indirect oversight of nursing practice, resources, research, patient experience and nursing quality at Yale New Haven. She also leads the system’s nursing leadership development program. She is responsible for more than 5,000 nurses and clinical staff members. She is also the system’s first Black CNO. She is also passionate about nursing other nurses in the field, focusing on mentoring students facing persistent biases in the healthcare system. She originally joined the system in 1992 as a nurse in the operating room, and was promoted to the role of CNO in 2018.
