Kendra Williams-Diehm, Ph.D., Ph.D.

Kendra Williams-Diehm, Ph.D., Ph.D.

Kendra Williams-Diehm, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director with Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment, located within the Special Education program in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma. She holds both the Zarrow Family Endowed Chair and the Brian E. and Sandra L. O’Brien Presidential Professorship. Her primary research interests include comprehensive transition services with a focus on appropriate transition assessment and self-determination for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A secondary research interest focuses on the intersection of cultural and successful transition outcomes. Dr. Williams-Diehm taught special education at both the elementary and secondary level and still considered herself to be an educator first.