Kathi Williams

Kathi Williams is co-founder and vice president/executive director of the National Vaccine Information Center . She opened NVIC's office in 1982 and has been responsible for creating the administrative infrastructure and managing business and day-to-day operations for most of NVIC's 22 year history. As principal liaison with NVIC's membership, she is an expert on the provisions and implementation of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. She has represented NVIC membership concerns at meetings of the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, The Centers for Disease Control and other government meetings and legislative hearings.

She is co-owner of Vienna Glass Company and served as the company's business manager for five years. The mother of two children, her son, Nathan, suffered a severe reaction to his fourth DPT shot in 1982 when he was 18 months old and was left with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.