taught Voice and Speech at Estelle Harman's Actor's Workshop in Hollywood. Work for the union She began a long association with various civic and professional organizations in 1959, when she served as PTA President for Alexandria Avenue School in Los Angeles. Since then, however. most of her activities had been linked to her unions, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, since 1938, (AFTRA) and Screen Actors Guild, (SAG), since 1937. While she was a member of the Los Angeles Local, she was a Local and National Board member, Local Education Committee Chair. Co-Chair of the L.A. Women's Committee. Western Region Chair of the National Women's Committee and member of the joint AFTRA-SAG Merger Study Committee. She also edited the Los Angeles Local publication, DIALLOG. from 1974 to 1987. From 1978 until 1981, she was West Coast Coordinator for a CETA project to increase employment for professionals in the performing arts. From 1981 to 1982, she was Assistant Executive Director of the Los Angeles Local of AFTRA. In January 1993, after her move to Oregon, Williams was elected to the Local Board of the Portland Local of AFTRA, where she was Treasurer and Alternate to the AFTRA National Board. She and her husband were also editors of the SAG/AFTRA Portland newsletter for AFTRA and SAG. In Los Angeles, she was a Vice-President and Secretary of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). She also served several years as an appointee to the State Wage Board for the Broadcasting Industry and was an AFTRA delegate to the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. For the California State Federation of Labor, she coordinated and conducted the Communications Skills workshop at the Federation's "Women In The Workforce" conferences from 1977 until 1989.She has also taught Communication skills at the AFL-CIO's Western Section Summer School for Labor Union Women. From 1984 until 1992, she was Secretary-Treasurer of the UCLA Theater Film and Television Alumni Association and was one of the Charter members of that organization. She has also been Secretary of the InterGuild Women's Caucus. an organization of women in the entertainment industry guilds and unions. which awarded her its Distinguished Service Award. She was a founding member of the Education Council of the Los Angeles Music Center, with special interest in the Music Center on Tour program; a past member of the Glendale Arts Council Board;