Jill Williams is the Principal Research and Evaluation Manager at Acacia Center for Justice where she supports the Attorney Recruitment Project. Before joining Acacia, Jill was a faculty member at the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona. Jill has researched US border and immigration enforcement for over 15 years, leading projects on a range of issues including state responses to migrant deaths, family detention and release practices, and the use of multi-media information campaigns to dissuade migration attempts. At the University of Arizona, Jill also served as the Director of the Women in Science and Engineering Program and the lead program evaluator on several foundation and federally funded projects aimed at fostering diversity, inclusion, and equitable workforce development. As a researcher and program evaluator, Jill enjoys using social science methods to understand problems and support positive change-making. Jill holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University and MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Cincinnati. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, she now resides in Tucson, Arizona.