About Alesha Williams

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 asks the question of how minority identities are designed and characterized in comic books and are their methods to create better and more effective representation for marginalized and minority characters.

Read Alesha’s Research Here: Designing Identity: Critiquing the Characterization of Minority Identity in the Medium of Comics https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?0::NO:10:P10_ACCESSION_NUM:kent1574610888764166

Alesha is an Assistant Professor 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 organizations like CCAD's Gay-Straight Student Alliance and Girl Talk a club that focuses on individuals that 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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