Sioned Williams

Williams was born in Monmouthshire and was educated at Ysgol Gymraeg Cwmbrân and Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni. She attended Aberystwyth University where she studied Welsh and English. Later, she attended Cardiff University with a S4C T. Glynne Davies Scholarship.[3]

She was a journalist for BBC News, and later worked at Academi Hywel Teifi in Swansea University, organising public events and community courses on Welsh history, culture and literature.[2][3] Sioned's Husband, Daniel Gwydion Williams, is a professor of English Literature at Swansea University, he is also a writer and a semi-professional Jazz musician.[4]

In the 2017 local elections, Williams contested the Alltwen ward on Neath Port Talbot council.[5]

Sioned is the Plaid Cymru spokesperson for post-16 education, Social Justice and Equalities, having held these portfolios since her election. She is also a member of the Senedd's cross party committees for Children, Young People and Education; and Equality and Social Justice.[6]

Sioned Williams previously served as a Community Councillor for Alltwen and chaired the Cilybebyll Community Council prior to her term as an MS. She was also head of strategic communications for Plaid Cymru from January 2013 to December 2014.[7]

Sioned has campaigned passionately on many matters of social justice and inequality since her election. Notably, she successfully helped to secure a reopening of the enquiry into the Gleision Colliery mining accident in Cilybebyll after campaigning alongside the victims’ families for several years.[8]