What Are You Doing In Your Seat At The Table

SESSION INFO

Monday, January 6, 2020
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Session Type: Workshop

This workshop gives helpful tips to participants, particularly those of color to fulfill personal and professional growth while working in leadership roles within the Criminal Justice System. It will help professional leaders lead in today’s fragmented culture. The goal of the workshop is to give the participants a reason to stay committed to the field and in ensuring its continued development, crime reduction, education, and public safety initiatives.

SESSION PRESENTERS

Michelle Williams
Chief Probation Officer, MA Probation Service/MA Trial Court/Office of Commissioner of Probation


Chief Williams works in Charlestown Court Boston. As a professional in the Criminal Justice field for 27 years, she indicated it has required sound judgment, strategic planning, business management, oral and written communication skills to convey the voice and mission statements of the departments to provide various services to the staff, probationers’ victims and their families. She is a member of the Chief Probation Association’s Education Committee, which has spearheaded several educational conferences for her colleagues. Her interpersonal skills have helped her maintain strong public relations, with various community partners. She is committed to the field in ensuring its continued development, crime reduction, education, and public safety initiatives. Lastly, a partial list of the strategic initiatives she has implemented and or participated in are as follows: Project Pie Prostitution 2001, Red Dot Office of Community Corrections cases, Mass Court Rollout and Roxbury Court Clerk’s office backlog project 2006, Roxbury Court Choice Program, Thinking for a Change MRT 2011, Indigency research project 2011, ORAS role out in Boston Central and Charlestown Court, Charlestown Chart Drug Court 2012, MPS Strategic Plan Internal programs Courtyard Map project 2017 to present. She is a Board Member New England Council on Crime and Delinquency.