Alesha Williams, MFA

Alesha is an illustrator, Designer and Educator from Cleveland, Ohio. She earned her BFA in Illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design and earned her MFA in Visual Communication Design at Kent State University. Alesha is an advocate of Diversity and Inclusion and she combines her many interests in her research, which focuses on character design and representation of marginalized and minority characters in the medium of comic books. Her research ask the question how are minority identities are designed and characterized in comic books.

Currently, Alesha is a Future Faculty Post-Doc Fellow at the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology. Alesha has taught at Kent State University, Columbus College of Art and Design and many youth art programs around Ohio. She held roles as President in her collegiate organization like CCAD's Gay Straight Student Alliance and Girl Talk a club the focus on individuals that identify as female on campus. She is also a member of the Society of Illustrator. Organizations she designed for include; Cleveland Scene Magazine, Uhuru Magazine, Kent Cycle, and Compass Consulting Services LLC.