Darcy Burner (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Washington (8)
- Birth Date: Nov. 12, 1970
- Web site: http://www.darcyburner.com/
Education
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Harvard University, BS
Darcy Burner was born in Anchorage, Alaska and lives in Bellevue. She was adopted as a child into an Air Force family that moved a few times during her childhood, settling in Nebraska in 1977.
In 1989, Burner began attending Harvard. She worked every semester and took some time off from school to save money, graduating in 1996 with a degree in computer science and economics.
She worked at software companies in the Boston and San Francisco areas before moving with her husband to Washington state in 1998. Burner began working at Microsoft Corp. in 2000, eventually becoming a project manager.
Burner left Microsoft in 2004 to work toward a career in politics. Despite a lack of political experience, she ended up as the Democratic challenger against first-term Republican Congressman Dave Reichert in 2006.
Burner and her husband, Mike, have one child.
