ABOUT

Early Years

Julie Tam was born in Houston, TX, where she lived for the first 21 years of her life. She is Baptist and Chinese-American. Cantonese and English were her first two languages, with more to come later. Her father was a geophysicist, later an entrepreneur, and now retired; her mother was a petroleum engineer and is now in real estate. Julie's mother has always been the kind of “superwoman” Julie aspires to be. Julie's father put her in front of the camera when she was only an infant. By age two... (more)

Middle & High School Years

In school, Julie was an honor roll student and consistently kept a spot among the top students in her class. Favorite subjects: math, English, and Spanish. Julie spent two Christmas holiday seasons performing with the Houston Ballet in The Nutcracker at the Wortham Theatre Center in downtown Houston and got her first paychecks. She started attending Second Baptist School in 7th grade. By high school, Julie was spending at least 10 hours a week during the school year and 27 hours a week during the summer at Houston Ballet Academy - training in classical ballet, modern dance, jazz, character dance, improvisation, pas de deux (pairs dancing), body conditioning, Pilates, Alexander technique, floor-barre, movement, musical theater, choreography, music appreciation, and stage makeup and hair. At the end of 11th grade, she finished the academy's pre-professional program. The other art she loved was... (more)

College Years & Career Start

Julie graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Economics on May 10, 2003. She entered Rice in the fall of 1999 with 20 credit hours (almost one year of college credit) from high scores on Advanced Placement exams in high school, making her an AP scholar. She lived at Jones College (on-campus dorm) all four years. During her time at Rice, she worked in all types of media, but ultimately focused on TV. It was near the beginning of college that Julie discovered her “pop” voice. Her dance training expanded to include country western, ballroom, Latin ballroom, swing, and hip hop. Julie continued taking classes at Houston Ballet Academy and danced with Rice Dance Theatre for a semester. Freshman year, she joined Rice Broadcast TV (RBT) as a... (more)

On-Air Career Beginnings

From 2003-05, Julie was an award-winning TV news reporter at KLTV-TV ABC 7 – filing daily reports live in the field, live on set, and pre-packaged – broadcasting to all of East Texas, including Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, and all surrounding cities and counties. She produced and anchored episodes of Inside East Texas, a 30-min. community affairs series that aired on Sunday mornings at 8:30 or 10:30, with a repeat overnight – also airing on KTRE-TV ABC 9 in Lufkin-Nacogdoches. Julie's reports have also aired on CNN... (more)

Current Situation

Julie is weekend 10pm news anchor/reporter at WDRB-TV FOX 41 in Louisville, KY. She's a member of Young Professionals Association of Louisville (YPAL), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) Kentuckiana chapter, and Rice University Chinese Alumni Association (RUCAA). Julie is the webmaster for the Texas chapter of AAJA and volunteers as a mentor in the national Broadcast Mentor Program. She also volunteers as the Kentucky captain of... (more)

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