[citation needed] She was director of media relations for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in 1983, a member of the convention staff of the D.N.C.
[9] On the night of the death of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster in 1993, a Secret Service agent claimed he saw Williams remove two handfuls of folders from his office, which she vehemently denied.
[14] In this capacity she defended the Clinton campaign's decision to circulate pictures of rival candidate Barack Obama wearing traditional Somali clothing, stating, "If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed."
"[15] In their book, The Battle for America: The Story of an Extraordinary Election, Haynes Johnson and Dan Balz wrote that with Williams in charge the campaign was more collegial and operated with greater efficiency.
[17] In addition to her consulting business, Williams is a director of the Scholastic Publishing Corporation,[18] the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).
She is a trustee of the Rhode Island School of Design[19] and a US Commissioner for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
From 2000 to 2007, Williams also served as director at Delta Financial Corporation, a mortgage lender that filed for bankruptcy in December 2007.