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Senior Executive Assistant

La Donna M. Williams is the senior executive assistant at Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). La Donna is a high-performing, results-driven executive with extensive experience in event management, executive administrative support, and business management.

La Donna has more than 30 years of administrative experience working with organizations in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. She began her administrative career at Headquarters, Department of the Army, Office of the White House Liaison (OWHL) at the Pentagon, where she provided support to the executive secretary to the Secretary of Defense. After leaving OWHL, she went on to serve as an administrative assistant at Techmatic, Inc. She later relocated to Atlanta, GA where she worked for Morehouse School of Medicine and Delta Air Lines, Inc., before returning to the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

La Donna has held additional administrative positions in and around Washington, DC, including the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, America’s Promise Alliance, the U.S. Department of Energy. She has assisted with leading of three Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conferences, where she revolutionized the systems and protocols for each event. Prior to joining CSWE, she was a senior administrative officer at Jamison Professional Services, Inc. at the Department of Commerce.

La Donna wholeheartedly believes that by helping people work well together while utilizing her mediation, negotiation, and listening skills, she’ll start to make a difference in the lives of her colleagues and the people she serves. She has a lifelong passion and commitment to helping empower the next generation of young girls as they transition from adolescence to womanhood. La Donna’s goal is to lend a helping hand and share her many blessings, skills, and life lessons to uplift and empower young girls.