Position: A shareholder at Clark Nuber, a CPA and consulting firm in metro Seattle. At the start of 2016, she'll be taking the reins as the president of the CREW Seattle & Sound chapter.

Responsibilities: As a shareholder in the firm’s audit and assurance practice, she will help real estate owners, developers and management companies meet high standards of financial transparency and accountability. As the president of CREW, she works with board members to promote its mission of advancing business, networking, and leadership for women in commercial real estate.

Extracurricular activities: On the finance committee at the CREW National level and am a member of NAIOP. Once a month, she leads a team of Clark Nuber colleagues to cook breakfast for elementary school children as part of the Jubilee Reach before school program.

Picture: Julie and other CREW Seattle & Sound members at this year's Summer Social.

First job: At Taco Bell. The brown polyester uniform was not a great fashion statement for a high school student, but she can still roll a mean burrito.

Guilty pleasure: Dark chocolate.

Interesting fact: She attended four bowl games (Orange, Sugar, Fiesta and Sugar) as the color guard captain in the Nebraska Cornhusker marching band. She is now a member of the Washington Cornhusker chapter. Go Big Red!

Favorite things to do in free time: Golf, attending Seahawks and Mariner games, wine tasting, reading, spending time with family and friends.

Job in another life: Broadway dancer who transitions after a stage career into a choreographer for the TV show So You Think You Can Dance?

Favorite quote: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.”  -- Mahatma Gandhi.