Vickie Williams received her M.P.H. with emphasis in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from Cal State Long Beach after graduating from Cal State Fullerton with a B.S. in Health Science. She began her public health career in tobacco prevention in Orange County, then worked as a Research Study Coordinator for 8 years at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research. There, she focused on the psychosocial needs of young breast cancer survivors, developing and implementing several research studies on long term effects of treatment and quality of life outcomes. She also collaborated with the UCLA Psychology department on research with metastatic breast cancer patients. Vickie began her time with USC as a Study Coordinator at HEAL, working on cohort of young adults on vaping nicotine and involving young adults and vaping–exploring trends, attitudes, beliefs, marketing impact, and implications on nicotine and cannabis use and addiction. She became the Chief Programs and Communications Officer at IAS in early 2021. As a mother of two, in what free time she has, Vickie enjoys spending it outside hiking and mountain biking in the spring/summer or snowboarding in the winter and she reserves all Sundays between September and early February for football.