Julie Pham is Vice President of Community Engagement and Marketing at Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), which advocates on behalf of the state’s 8600 tech companies. Prior to WTIA, she worked in marketing at Microsoft and Avidian Technologies. She is a Puget Sound Business Journal 2011 ’40 under 40’ honoree and a 2015 German Marshall Memorial Fellow. She earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley, where she studied history.