Jerel Williams is a Senior Vice President at GBAO, where he focuses on issues of social justice and racial attitudes. Jerel’s clients have included Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Safety and Justice PAC, Youth First, The E Pluribus Unum Fund, Center for American Progress, DCCC, and numerous Democratic candidates for office. He handles multivariate analysis, and is an accomplished focus group moderator, leading groups on voting rights, civic participation, the role race plays in politics and society, criminal justice reform, and political strategy.

Before joining GBAO, Jerel worked on Mitch Landrieu’s successful 2014 re-election campaign for Mayor of New Orleans. He also worked as a research assistant at Louisiana State University to an assistant professor and deputy director of the public policy research lab. In that role, Jerel evaluated the impact of sanctions and punishments within state level welfare policies, and the role race plays in being offered vocational education opportunities by welfare case officers.

Jerel graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2011 and a master’s degree in 2013, writing his thesis on the impact consent decrees in school desegregation cases have on education outcomes.