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Millie was born in Vietnam.
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Millie decides she wants to work for the C.I.A. and become a spy. She also begins to hone her computer skills by sending AOL emails to her mailing list of 100 other kids. It's through this hobby that she picks up HTML and CSS and develops her interest in technology.
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Millie becomes a college freshman at UCLA, a far cry from the small, all-women's Massachussetts college she'd always imagined herself attending.
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Millie becomes a tech writer for the UCLA Daily Bruin her sophomore year.
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Millie becomes the UCLA Daily Bruin's New Media Coordinator and Opinion Editor.
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Millie becomes the Multimedia Editor for UCLA's center for International Relations. She works there for two years and nine months.
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Millie begins interning at Los Angelos' Good Magazine as a coorporate partnerships intern after interning for nearly every LA magazine on either the editorial or business side of production. She works there until June 2010.
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Though she began her college career majoring in Women's Studies and Arabic, Millie graduates from UCLA with a B.A. in Global Studies and Geography. Her senior year, she wrote her honors thesis on cyber war and taught a class on the subject as well.
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After graduating, Millie becomes a fellow for Atlantic Media in D.C. but she only stays for two weeks before finding a job that interests her more at the National Journal.
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Millie becomes a marketing and design associate for the newly created National Journal Membership in Washington D.C. She stayed there until September 2012.
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Millie begins to work as a multimedia coordinator for the Council of Foreign Relations in D.C. She stayed there until May 2013.
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Millie joins the American Press Institute as an Editorial Coordinator in April where she meets the lovely and talented Jane Elizabeth. At the time, she was also considering a role at the Washington Post for their Post TV program, but after consideration she decided the position at API provided more freedom. She worked at API until January 2015.
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Millie joins the Buzzfeed staff in New York City and helps develops their new BuzzFeed News app. She also launched the BuzzFeed newsletter.
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Millie google chats a group of aspiring journalists and inspires them with her success story. ODU Reporting II student Alyse Stanley proceeds to do a quick search of Tech Lady Mafia because that sounds amazing and totally the crowd she would hang with - my apologies, "with which she would hang."
