Julia (MA 2022) is the Othering and Belonging Institute's Campus Bridging Project Specialist. A non-binary former Peace Corps Volunteer who lived and worked with Youth in Development in Morocco, they received their Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and minor in creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2016. While there, they wrote a senior thesis on the community of vulnerability and positive youth development that occurs within the Triangle’s spoken word and slam poetry community (of which they are a proud member). In May of 2017 they were honored to participate in the Iowa Summer Writers Workshop with James Galvin at the University of Iowa. They are interested in continuing to explore how those ensnared by dominant narratives find spaces and mediums to create their own stories. In particular they are interested in previously colonized countries, questions of LBTQIA* identity in countries with a dominant religious narratives, movements of peoples across physical and socially constructed borders, and many other things.
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