Julia is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Counseling Psychology, an Education Graduate Research Fellow, and an emerging scholar at the Center for Healthy Minds. Her research centers on trauma recovery and resilience, with a particular focus on forcibly displaced communities and survivors of conflict and collective trauma. She has also contributed to research examining long-term outcomes following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in military service members and survivors of intimate-partner violence.
Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Julia worked in various advocacy and community engagement roles in the nonprofit sector. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 2019, with a B.A. in Economics and Development Studies.