Julia is a junior at Brown University concentrating in Public Policy and English on the Nonfiction Writing track. She is passionate about criminal justice reform and has volunteered with the Petey Greene Program during her time at Brown, tutoring in a classroom at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institute. She is also passionate about women’s rights and spent her summer abroad reviewing reproductive rights legislation for a representative in Ireland’s parliament. At Brown, Julia unites her passions for social justice and nonfiction writing as a member of the Swearer Center’s Storyteller’s Fellowship, where she currently has two stories in the works about prison education and expressions of mental illness through art. She believes storytelling is a thorough, dignified, and interpersonal mechanism for creating social change, and hopes to someday become a speechwriter. Julia enjoys photography, running, and performing in Skorts, Brown’s only sketch comedy group comprised of people of marginalized genders.