Co-Founder, Chief of Staff & Board Secretary
Aminah Williams
Building the operating systems that turn vision into outcomes.
Chief of Staff & Board Secretary · August 2020 – Present
5+
Years on Legends Board
20+
Years in Strategy & Operations
2
Companies Co-Founded
1
Army Reserve Commission
Aminah Williams is a co-founder of Legends Public Charter School, a tuition-free K–8 public charter school in Lanham, Maryland, where she serves as Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Board of Directors. A founding member of the Legends board, she also co-founded Equity Now, Inc., the nonprofit that operates Legends, and served as its Chief Development and Human Capital Officer from 2017 to 2023. Outside Legends, Aminah is Chief Administrative Officer, Controller and Secretary of the Board of Directors of A.T. Kearney Public Sector and Defense Services, and Principal Partner and Consultant at Equitable Ink, LLC. Her earlier career includes systems engineering and collaboration work at Stellar Solutions and program management roles at Boeing, and she served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and the National Guard. Aminah holds a Master of Business Administration and an Executive MBA from the Howard University School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Canisius University.
"My son said we should make a better school for him. So we did."
At Legends
Co-Founder, Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Board of Directors since August 2020. A founding member of the board, she helped design the school's founding model and provides governance leadership, board operations, and strategic oversight.
Her fingerprints are on every major system at Legends—from governance structures to operational excellence frameworks.
By Day
Chief Administrative Officer, Controller and Secretary of the Board of Directors of A.T. Kearney Public Sector and Defense Services in Washington, D.C., where she leads HR, IT, security, finance, contracts, and compliance.
Her career spans two decades in strategy execution and operations leadership, including roles at Boeing, Stellar Solutions, and the U.S. Army Reserve.
She brings the discipline of military service and the precision of private sector operations to everything she builds.
Career Timeline
2023 – Present
Chief Administrative Officer, Controller & Board Secretary
Public Sector & Defense Services, Kearney
2020 – Present
Co-Founder, Chief of Staff & Board Secretary
Legends Public Charter School
2017 – 2023
Co-Founder & Chief Development and Human Capital Officer
Equity Now, Inc.
2017 – Present
Principal Partner & Consultant
Equitable Ink, LLC
2016 – 2020
Systems Engineer / Collaboration SME
Stellar Solutions
2010 – 2016
Senior Industrial Security Manager / Program Manager
Boeing
2004 – 2013
Commissioned Officer
U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard
"I lead strategy execution in complex organizations, building the operating systems and cross-functional alignment that turn vision into outcomes."
Education
MBA and Executive MBA
Business Administration
Howard University School of Business
B.A.
Criminal Justice
Canisius University (Army ROTC), 2004
Army ROTC Commission
U.S. Army Reserve
Canisius University
Recognition & Service
Featured in Kearney Originals: "Always going above and beyond"
Co-Founder, Equity Now, Inc. (501(c)(3) parent organization of Legends)
Co-Founder, Equitable Ink, LLC
Commissioned Officer, U.S. Army Reserve
Habitat for Humanity volunteer
Beyond Legends
Aminah is a mom of two sons, a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan, and a passionate advocate for urban agriculture and addressing fresh-food deserts in cities.