Prior to that she was an associate member of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg and Glad & Ferguson, P.C. in San Francisco office. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Wada worked as a senior consultant with a large global logistics company where she was responsible for managing compliance audits; preparing binding ruling requests and advising companies on Customs compliance, regulatory and other trade related issues. Ms. Wada also served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Charles Z. Smith of the Washington State Supreme Court. She received her J.D. in 1993 from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, and B.A.s in English and History in 1990 from Western Washington University. Ms. Wada has been the Programs Director for WIT-NC in 2002 and Vice President in 2003 and 2004.