After seeing Phylicia Rashad's lawyer character Clair Huxtable on the sitcom The Cosby Show, Williams was inspired to attend law school to counter the violence she saw growing up.

[4] Williams studied criminal justice at West Chester University and interned in the homicide unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

Williams credits this as the moment she fully decided to turn to acting full time, calling it "best thing that happened to [her].

[10] In 2010, Williams gained her first film role, being cast opposite Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill in Streets.

[11] In March 2011, it was announced that Williams would join the cast of ABC's One Life to Live in the contract role of Deanna.

[12] When Williams auditioned, the character was only supposed to appear in three episodes, however by the time of her debut, she had signed a four-year contract.

[16] In 2015, Williams appeared in the Queen Latifah executive produced feature film, Brotherly Love, opposite Keke Palmer.

[19] Later that year, she was cast in the recurring role of Charlotte on the CBS prime time drama, Code Black.

[25] In May and June 2019, Williams, DC Comics Co-Publisher Jim Lee, writer Tom King, and fellow CW series actresses Candice Patton and Danielle Panabaker toured five U.S. military bases in Kuwait with the United Service Organizations(USO), where they visited the approximately 12,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in that country as part of DC's 80th anniversary of Batman celebration.

Williams portrayed American author and producer Robyn Crawford, whom was also an assistant, creative director, and former romance of Houston.

[33] She starred alongside David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Victoria Smurfit, Alex Hassell, Bella Maclean, Katherine Parkinson, and Danny Dyer.