Sima Sarrafan is Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs, where she has worked in a variety of capacities, including supporting commercial marketing and consumer businesses, and conducting internal investigations. She co-founded ProJourn along with colleagues at Microsoft and Davis Wright Tremaine and currently co-chairs the ProJourn Advisory Committee. Sarrafan has been active in pro bono legal support and has been twice named Pro Bono Volunteer of the year by Microsoft.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Sarrafan was a Partner at Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo LLP, where her practice focused on intellectual property and general litigation, had served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorney at the Office of International Affairs at the Department of Justice, and was an associate attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine in their communications and media law practice.

In addition to her work at Microsoft and with ProJourn, Sarrafan served for approximately six years on the Board of Directors of the Bellevue School District, where she served as President for the last two years of her term; she also previously served on the Board of the National Association of Women Lawyers. Sarrafan graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in Economics and earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and has taught at Harvard College, Roger Williams School of Law, and Seattle University School of Law.