Mesha Y. Williams is the social media coordinator for the International Association of Fire Fighters. She joined the IAFF in 2010, after serving as the Online Coordinator for the Education Writers Association and as a weekend Web Editor for Wtop.com the website for WTOP 103.5 FM radio station in Washington, DC. Williams is a former Newspaper Reporter who worked for the Gadsden Times in Alabama and the Spartanburg Herald Journal in South Carolina. A native of Nashville, TN, she received her bachelor's degree in English from Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., and her master's degree in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington, DC.