Cheryl N. Williams is the Executive Deputy Counsel for Special Education Case Management (OGC-SECM) for New York City Public Schools (NYCPS), the United States’s largest school district. Cheryl guides multidisciplinary teams of lawyers, paralegals, data, tech, and finance teams in the filing, administration, and implementation of special education due process claims, as well as creating special education legal policy, and serving as agency counsel on class action litigation. Cheryl brings great expertise in change management and ushering teams into new operations, leveraging best practices and transformational leadership, to fuel large-scale system modernization. A human centered leader who believes “to whom much is given, much is required,” Cheryl is committed to and works actively towards the growth, and empowerment of her teams.