Audra joined the development communications team in August 2012. Her work focuses on publicity for gifts via press releases, giving stories, newsletters and social media. She also develops multimedia content for the Giving to Duke website. Before Duke, Ang spent 15 years as an editor and correspondent for The Associated Press in Seattle, New York and Beijing. She graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in psychology and creative writing, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of “To the People, Food is Heaven,” a memoir about reporting and eating in China. Audra, who grew up in Singapore, often consumes unseemly amounts of food at one sitting.