Prior to joining the Rockefeller Family Fund, Julie served as Advocacy Director
for Voting Rights and Democracy at the Open Society Foundations, as Deputy
Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of
Justice in the Obama administration, and as Special Assistant for Domestic
Policy to President Bill Clinton. From 2002 to 2008, Julie was Senior Counsel at
the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights where, among other
things, she led the coalition’s successful campaign to reauthorize the 1965 Voting
Rights Act. Julie currently serves on the Advisory Board of Analyst Institute, the
Ad Council, the Media Democracy Action Fund, and the New American Majority
Fund at the Democracy Alliance. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Bend
the Arc: Jewish Action, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law, and the Georgetown Day School. Julie received both her J.D. and
A.B. degrees from the University of Chicago and clerked for the Honorable Diane
P. Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.