Shanae Williams proudly represents District 16 at the Westchester County Board of Legislators. Williams had an overwhelming victory in the Democratic Primary on June 27, 2023 over the incumbent, and successfully won the General Election on November 7, 2023 as well. Williams successfully ran for re-election in 2025 and is currently serving her 2nd term at the County Board of Legislators.
 
Williams has been a Public Servant for 13 years in which 6 of those years was spent representing Council District One on the Yonkers City Council. Appointed to the Yonkers City Council on January 1, 2018 and subsequently elected to the Council in 2019, Shanae Williams proudly served the First Council District in the City of Yonkers where she was a strong advocate for the homeless, fought tirelessly for more affordable housing and successfully provided record numbers in funding to the Yonkers Public School district. 
 
Williams holds a Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York at Albany and holds the highest GPA Award for the Class of 2011 in the Department of Sociology. Williams interned and then served in the New York State Assembly. Upon graduating undergrad, she then worked fulltime at the Office of the Mayor in Yonkers, New York. Williams obtained her Master of Business Administration with a focus in Leadership from Walden University in 2015.
 
Born in Jamaica and immigrated to Yonkers as a child, Councilmember Williams is the younger of two siblings. She has a very large extended family, as her mother is one of 13 children, she is proud to have a very close knit, God-fearing family in Yonkers. Williams is a product of the NYS public school system having attended Dodson Elementary and Mark Twain Middle School in Yonkers, and Hastings High School in Hastings-on-Hudson. Williams has been a resident of the Westchester County for over 27 years.
 
Williams is a Yonkers Democratic Committee District Leader, a member of the Westchester Black Women Political Caucus, Hudson River Community Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Young Elected Officials Network, Aquehung Women’s Democratic Club, and the National Council of Negro Women and the Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club. She was the Yonkers City Council’s liaison for the Yonkers Human Rights Commission, a former board member of the Municipal Housing Authority of the City of Yonkers, served as the liaison to Mayor Mike Spano’s African American Advisory Board, was an honorary board member of the YWCA of Yonkers as well as the Yonkers Downtown Business Improvement District. Williams is the former Chair of Legislation and Codes Committee and the Community and Mental Health Committee.
 
At the County Board of Legislators, Williams Chairs the Housing & Planning Committee, Vice Chair of  IT & Cybersecurity Committee, is a member of the Budget & Appropriations Committee, Public Works & Transportation Committee and Appointments Committee. Legislators Shanae Williams is passionate about serving her constituents ensuring they have equitable access to county services, while fighting for hard working families so they can afford to remain living in this wonderful county. She is honored to serve the people of Westchester utilizing the unique lens she brings as a young, black, female immigrant that grew up with less than her peers. Williams looks forward to continuing her work as a community leader in the City of Yonkers and Westchester County for years to come.