Early Life
Williams was born in Taunton, Somerset to Welsh parents. She spent a few years living in Somerset and Liverpool before the family moved to Bynea, Carmarthenshire when Williams was three. After being educated at the village primary school, Kirsty had a private secondary education and attended St. Michael's School in Llanelli. St. Michaels School named a section of the school after her called the "Kirsty Williams Centre" due to her success as a politician. She attended the University of Manchester where she received a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies. The course included studying for a year at the University of Missouri.
After graduation she worked in the learning resources department of Carmarthenshire College in her home town Llanelli, before taking up a post as a marketing and public relations executive. She went to the same school as former Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews.
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