Senior Program Manager, TASC Center for Health and Justice
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Senior Program Manager Mica L. Williams has spent her career advancing the needs of underrepresented communities and promoting healthy community-police relations. Formerly the Director of Adult Diversion at Foundation of HOPE, she worked closely with the Allegheny County Department of Health in establishing Pittsburgh's inaugural adult diversion program. In this capacity, she established a groundbreaking harm reduction partnership with Pennsylvania Probation and Parole Board, and served on the Steering Committee for the Allegheny Task Force on Overdose Prevention for Justice Involved Populations. Prior, as a FUSE Corps Executive Fellow, she served Pittsburgh’s Bureau of Police and community by evaluating the City’s flagship community-policing unit. Her year-end report continues to serve as a blueprint for program expansion and has supported the establishment of the Hear Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding community-police initiatives.

At New Voices and Women’s Law Project, Mica lobbied in Washington D.C. and advised Pennsylvania and Ohio state legislators on equitable policy reforms for LGBTQ+ groups and communities of color. Her legislative research helped reveal incongruities in Pennsylvania’s perinatal shackling law and its corrections policies, culminating in "Right to Know" pamphlets for pregnant, justice-involved individuals. In consulting roles, Mica has championed youth initiatives aimed at ending the school-to-prison pipeline, such as the ACLU’s Allegheny County School Policing Project and SQUIRES of San Quentin. 

Mica holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and rhetoric, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor in Social Justice from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. A proud alum of City College of San Francisco, she earned double Associate's Degrees with Highest Honors in English and Humanities, securing a full scholarship to U.C. Berkeley. She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and a Big Sister of America.