M{2e}’s Women’s Leadership Society (WLS) is pleased to host Julian Guthrie, journalist, founder and CEO of tech startup Alpha Girls and national best-selling author, for the next installment of the Gender Equality Game-Changers Series. Guthrie will share her professional highlights and perspectives on key trends for women in tech, startups, and venture capital.

About Julian Guthrie

Julian Guthrie – a self-described “word geek” – has a love of words, language, and storytelling that has taken her from a childhood spent devouring books (and reading the dictionary!) to a 25-year career in daily journalism, where she won numerous awards and had her work nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. Julian has written five books, two of which are being adapted for television.

She is now the founder and CEO of a venture-backed SaaS (software as a service) company, Alpha Girls, which uses targeted storytelling and guided community to enable companies to attract, retain, and promote women and allies in entirely new ways. Alpha Girls is poised to change the game for women across industries, and will soon be rolled out to colleges and universities in the U.S.

Julian’s personal story shows how a love of something — whatever it is — can take you far in life. “Going from a little girl who loved to read to journalism to author to the founder of a tech company actually feels like a continuum,” Julian says. “I just took my love, my skills, and pivoted into new mediums. At its core, though, I’m still telling stories.”

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