Adrienne Williams is an award-winning author, speaker, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) advocate and changemaker, with over twenty years in transportation and commercial construction, program management, workforce development training, small business growth, and outreach for the construction industry. Williams empowers and equips organizations, teams, and small business owners, with strategies that boost diverse business utilization, community engagement, and economic parity and impact for small, minority, and women-owned businesses.

Adrienne has been widely recognized for her work as the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program Manager on multiple design-building projects, including the DFW Connector Project, which was (at that time) the largest single transportation-funded project in the nation.

She was recently selected to serve on the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Foundation 2024-2026 Board of Directors and is also a former past President for the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Greater Dallas/ Ft. Worth Chapter.

Adrienne is also on the Executive Committee and Chair of the Transportation & Mobility Committee, at the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce.

Other prior leadership roles include serving on the City of Desoto City Charter Review Commission, Board of Directors for the League of Women Voters of Dallas, and former Chair of the Dallas Blueprint Leadership Program. She has a Master of Social Work (MSW) with a concentration in Administration and Public Policy from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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