Event Details - Fords on Friday - Marcus Williams ’12

Marcus Williams '12

Assistant Director, International Outreach Support College Board

East Asian Studies Major

Marcus currently works as the Assistant Director of International Outreach Support at College Board. In this role, he supports colleagues in strategy implementation, as well, he manages various databases for international secondary and higher ed institutions and supports training and building resources for his colleagues. He has been a part of events such as their 2019 Chinese Bridge Delegation to connect US district and school leaders to Chinese schools, and a summer workshop series in Abu Dhabi to support the instructors of Advanced Placement. Prior to this role, Marcus has spent a number of years in New York City classrooms from 2013 to 2018. Across these five years of teaching, he developed teaching materials to support students of various learning styles and levels to explore Japanese language and culture. Over the summers he also took students on one month overseas exchanges through organizations such as World Learning's The Experiment in International Living and CIEE's High School Summer Abroad.

Outside of work, Marcus is an avid student of world languages and dabbles in music, he also mentors a number of former students and current college-aged alumni to support their post-collegiate goals. He previously has participated in a panel for Multicultural Alumni Action Group's (MAAG) panel on networking. He is passionate about world language instruction in classrooms, and exploring methods to increase better awareness for students of color to be supported in cross-cultural opportunities in their secondary and collegiate careers.