Audra Ang spent six years as a senior public relations specialist for central development communications at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

She helped develop and execute marketing and communications materials to advance fundraising goals and enhance donor relations and stewardship during a $3.85 billion campaign.

Her main responsibilities included initiating gift publicity strategies—from press releases to donor and impact stories—and developing and executing social media strategy. She regularly collaborated with Duke's 10 schools, the Duke Alumni Association, and Duke's Office of News and Communications.

Before Duke, Audra spent 15 years as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press in the U.S and Asia. She was a Beijing-based correspondent in her last posting. In between bites of "mouth-watering chicken" and "fragrant and spicy potato shreds," she covered disasters, disease and dissent while chronicling the breakneck changes that were convulsing China. She is the author of To the People, Food is Heaven, a memoir about her experiences with China’s tougher issues through the meals she had.