After serving as the New England Grassroots Environment Fund’s (Grassroots Fund) Executive Director since October 2014, Julia stepped to the side in December 2021, for a new, Co-Director leadership model at the Grassroots Fund and to focus on the organization’s development work. The Grassroots Fund, a public foundation supporting deep community-led grassroots action, seeks to achieve environmental justice and equity through deep participatory grantmaking and shifting power and access to resources to marginalized communities most affected by environmental threats. Julia is particularly passionate about the Grassroots Fund’s role in a movement to disrupt the power imbalance at the community level and across philanthropy.
Julia has over three decades of experience forming and working with nonprofits andcommunity engagement programs. Complementing her experience in energy and climate change solutions, she has a background in nonprofit development, management and board participation in the broader fields of environmental sustainability, low-income housing solutions, domestic violence and business environmental sustainability.
Julia attributes her passion for environmental advocacy and building resilient, equitable communities to her experiences of growing up on an off-grid farm in the hills of northern NH. She now lives in southeast NH with her husband, Chris, and is the proud mother of three young adults, ages 21-25.
