Julia is an attorney, teacher, and community organizer. She first knocked on doors for Ranked Choice Voting in 2010, as well as sustainable energy policies and other advocacy campaigns. From 2012 to 2014, Julia served as a teacher in the US Peace Corps in Kenya. In that role, Julia taught high school classes of up to 80 students at a time, organized community health and nutrition programs, trained and assisted colleagues in grant writing, and organized gender equality and empowerment programs for youth. Upon returning to the US, Julia enrolled in law school to fight for a sustainable future and to root out corruption in politics.
Julia earned her J.D. at Vermont Law School, and is currently an associate attorney with Super Law Group, a public-interest environmental law firm. Julia grew up in Nassau County and earned her B.S. in Natural Resources Management at SUNY ESF in Onondaga County. She currently lives in Brooklyn and is a registered Democrat.