Professor Nancy S. B. Williams, Ph.D.

Professor Nancy Williams is an inorganic chemist specializing in organometallic chemistry and the teaching of inorganic chemistry at the undergraduate level. She is a founding member of IONiC (the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists) and its website VIPEr (the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Educational Resource, www.ionicviper.org), an effort dedicated to harnessing the power of social networks on the web to improve undergraduate education.

Professor Nancy Williams came out as a queer, transgender woman in 2013, and has been active in voter canvassing efforts intended to protect trans rights and reduce prejudice against trans people in Los Angeles, Miami, and Tacoma.

Professor Williams also proud to sing with the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles and has been singing in choirs for thirty years; for trans women, whose voices do not become higher when they transition, vocal performance is an act of public visibility and broadens our conception of what women's voices sound like. TCLA is dedicated to being a visible example to trans youth of the beauty of the transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender non-conforming community.

Sub-specialties: Catalyst Development, Methane-to-Methanol conversion, Inorganic Chemistry Education, Online Community in Education, Transgender Rights, Transgender Choral and Vocal Performance, LGBTQIA+ people in STEM (especially chemistry), Voter Canvassing/Deep Canvassing/Prejudice Reduction