Winnacunnet School Board candidate 2025: Tracy Emerton Williams
Name: Tracy Emerton Williams
Town: North Hampton
Education: WHS 1981, AS management, BS in computer information systems (CIS) Bentley University
Occupation: IT executive
Political or civic experience highlights: Board of the HAWHS Alumni Association - 2013 to present, NECPAD Board Member- 2024 to present
What would be your top three priorities if you are elected?: 1. Safety at the school, including both cyber and physical - we live in an age of dangerous individuals and countries, and we have to maintain alertness in order to keep our staff and students safe. My background in cybersecurity and the state of New Hampshire and federal regulations compliances makes me uniquely qualified to support WHS.
2. Public schools are becoming the last remnant of communal America where every person's capabilities should be developed and supported. Our public schools are just that "public," which means everyone in SAU 21.
3. I will broaden the outreach of the school into the private, public, military and other sectors that help our students and teachers.
What are your views about diversity, equity and inclusion in schools?: DEI is important to our community, and I am a perfect example of this - in 1977 when I started as a freshman at WHS there was no soccer program for girls, ending my athletic interest, without Title IX this would still be the same for current students.
WHS prepared me to go into computer science by installing a lab of TRS-80s in 1980 - without this initial exposure, I wouldn't have gone on to college to get a STEM degree.
What else should voters know about you?: I am a product of public schools (North Hampton and Winnacunnet High School) and have gone on to a successful career in information technology, serving as the chief information officer (CIO) for the state of Rhode Island and the assistant state court administrator for the Rhode Island State Supreme Court and most recently as the New Hampshire State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program and the NH FIRST Modernization Program.
I am also a lifelong resident of North Hampton, and I am prepared on day 1 to go to work for our collective community.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Winnacunnet School Board candidate 2025: Tracy Emerton Williams
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