About Alesha Williams
Alesha is an Illustrator, Designer, and Educator from Cleveland, Ohio. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Columbus College of Art and Design and her MFA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University. Alesha advocates for Diversity and Inclusion, and she weaves her many interests into her research, which focuses on character design and the representation of marginalized and minority characters in comic books. Her research asks how minority identities are designed and characterized in comic books, and what methods can create better, more effective representations of marginalized and minority characters.
Read Alesha’s Research Here: Designing Identity: Critiquing the Characterization of Minority Identity in the Medium of Comics.
Alesha is an assistant professor in 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 served as President of collegiate organizations, including CCAD's Gay-Straight Student Alliance and Girl Talk, a club for individuals who identify as female on campus. She is also a member of the Society of Illustrators. Organizations she designed for include: Cleveland Magazine, Uhuru Magazine, Kent Cycle, Shein, She’s Happy Go Luckie, Compass Consulting Services LLC, and Sequential Potential LLC.
She loves illustrating, reading comics, playing video games, and musicals.
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