My Life Living in China

William Heathershaw's life was very much focused on community service when he was in college by overextending himself in student organizations. Volunteering for the 2008 Beijing Olympics was his last real volunteer engagement for quite a few years while he lived in Beijing. Then later in the Bay Area as life became much more focused on career. Despite growing up in a lower middle-class situation, William is blessed that he's been provided the opportunities to experience so much in life including traveling to nearly 40 countries on four continents. He's spent most of the past eight years focusing on his own small businesses, though he decided to recently join a decades-old family-owned business in Plymouth within the business technologies industry – their primary offerings are business telecommunications and an emergency management platform for school districts, college campuses, governments, healthcare systems, and large venues. William is also dedicated to promoting the life-changing college and CTE scholarships offered by the Horatio Alger Association, one of the largest private funders of needs-based scholarship – they changed his life in 2004 when he was one of two recipients that year in Iowa for a National Scholarship. For the past five years, William has been alongside his now life partner (wife), Ann, and they have a beautiful and spunky toddler Josie who somehow simultaneously drains and recharges them.