Dorimé-Williams is a Senior Research Associate in MDRC’s Postsecondary Education Policy Area, where she conducts assessments and evaluations focused on historically marginalized student populations and on improving policy and practice at colleges and universities. Prior to joining MDRC, Dorimé-Williams was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her teaching and research focused on socially just, student-centered assessment, evaluation, and institutional effectiveness in postsecondary education, particularly as it relates to access, persistence, and retention of historically marginalized students, faculty, and staff. She has a doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Educational Policy & Organizational Leadership.