Tang Williams was a research assistant at the University of Texas at Austin and got a minimum wage job at a telemarketing company to improve her English skills.^[5] After finishing graduate school, she became a social worker in Laramie, Wyoming, working with troubled youth as well as seniors in Wyoming home health care business. In the late 1990s, she moved to Hong Kong with her family as an expatriate to work as a corporate executive for PREL, Inc., helping to manage Walmart's operations in China.^[6] In 1999, she moved to Parker, Colorado, to work for a telecommunications company.^[7] When the company went bankrupt in 2000, Tang Williams started a consulting firm to help American companies conduct business in China and provide expert witness services on China-related matters. She and her husband took advantage of the housing market crash and in 2008 launched a rental property management company that operates in Colorado and Nevada.^[5] She is also a public speaker for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and travels around the United States to give speeches about her experiences growing up in communist China.