FINLEY WILLIAMS received her B.A. in American Studies from Cornell University (December 2025), where she was a scholar in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity and a tutor at the Cornell Writing Centers. Her work has appeared in The American Prospect, Jacobin, The Plentitudes, Labor Notes, and The Cornell Daily Sun. In 2026, she was a coordinator at the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, where she developed intensive reporting workshops for almost forty high-achieving, low-income rising high school seniors from across the US. In 2024, she served as Boston Review’s editorial fellow.

In other lives, she has served as a production assistant for a nonprofit theatre company in Ithaca, NY, where she supported formerly incarcerated people as they devised a play about their lived experiences in the justice system; a High Road Fellow in Buffalo, NY, where she assistant produced a one-man show about fracking in Appalachia; a program administrator for a teen summer internship program at the Chicago Public Library; and an intern at SouthWorks, Ithaca’s premier adaptive reuse project, where she was a part of the amazing team that planned the inaugural Ithaca Murals + SouthWorks Mural Jam, a large-scale public art festival.

In her free time, she enjoys reading tech and cultural criticism, attending events at the local bookstore and cinema, hiking, and thinking about doing arts and crafts. She lives in Ithaca with her perfect landscape architect partner — and she believes that you can always take the girl out of Chicago, but you can never take Chicago out of the girl.

FINLEY WILLIAMS received her B.A. in American Studies from Cornell University (December 2025), where she was a scholar in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity and a tutor at the Cornell Writing Centers. Her work has appeared in The American Prospect, Jacobin, The Plentitudes, Labor Notes, and The Cornell Daily Sun. In 2026, she was a coordinator at the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, where she developed intensive reporting workshops for almost forty high-achieving, low-income rising high school seniors from across the US. In 2024, she served as Boston Review’s editorial fellow.

In other lives, she has served as a production assistant for a nonprofit theatre company in Ithaca, NY, where she supported formerly incarcerated people as they devised a play about their lived experiences in the justice system; a High Road Fellow in Buffalo, NY, where she assistant produced a one-man show about fracking in Appalachia; a program administrator for a teen summer internship program at the Chicago Public Library; and an intern at SouthWorks, Ithaca’s premier adaptive reuse project, where she was a part of the amazing team that planned the inaugural Ithaca Murals + SouthWorks Mural Jam, a large-scale public art festival.

In her free time, she enjoys reading tech and cultural criticism, attending events at the local bookstore and cinema, hiking, and thinking about doing arts and crafts. She lives in Ithaca with her perfect landscape architect partner — and she believes that you can always take the girl out of Chicago, but you can never take Chicago out of the girl.