MDC
Diana Williams currently serves as a Program Coordinator at MDC since June 2023, focusing on the Rural Prosperity & Investment Program. Prior to this role, Diana worked at Starbucks as a Barista from August 2021 to June 2023 and at Campus Recreation as a Group Fitness Instructor from January 2021 to August 2022. Additionally, experience as a Grocery Team Member at Whole Foods Market was held from September 2020 to August 2022. Diana is pursuing a Master's in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, expected to graduate in May 2024, following a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy & Global Studies with a concentration in Public Policy Analysis from the same institution, earned in 2022.
MDC
MDC is a nonprofit founded in 1967 and based in Durham, N.C., that equips Southern leaders, institutions, and communities to improve economic mobility and advance equity. We bring together foundations, nonprofits, and leaders from government, business, and the grassroots to illuminate data that highlight deeply rooted Southern challenges and help them find systemic, community solutions. Our approach uses research, consensus-building, and programs that connect education, employment, and economic security to help communities foster prosperity by creating an “infrastructure of opportunity”—the aligned systems and supports that can boost everyone, particularly those who’ve been left behind, to higher rungs on the economic ladder. Since 1996, MDC’s landmark State of the South reports have shaped the economic agenda of the region, shining a spotlight on historic trends, deep-rooted inequities, and solutions that offer rural and urban communities a path forward. MDC is supported by grants and contracts from foundations, governments, and the private sector. Learn more at www.mdcinc.org.