Julia is currently a Senior Air Quality Engineer in the Rules & Strategic Policy division at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

Julia previously served as an Air Pollution Specialist in the Community Planning Section of the Office of Community Air Protection at the California Air Resources Board. The Office of Community Air Protection is responsible for the implementation of the Community Air Protection Program - the community-focused program established under AB 617 to more effectively reduce exposure to air pollution and preserve public health in communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution.

Julia began working in the field of air quality as a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder in Dr. Shelly Miller's group. Her research focused on indoor air quality, indoor air microbiome, infectious disease transmission and control, Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation technologies, and how building ventilation systems influence indoor air.

After receiving her PhD, Julia joined Ramboll's Air Quality and Climate Science group where her work shifted to outdoor air quality topics from a regulatory perspective. She gained experience in criteria air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions assessments, air dispersion and regional modeling, and health risk assessments. Her interests led her to start Ramboll's microsensor initiative to keep up with rapidly emerging technologies in the air sensor space. Her work with sensors and air quality monitoring led her to work on various projects focused on technology reviews and monitoring program design.

After participating in Ramboll's Innovation Accelerator in 2018, Julia founded an internal startup called Shair that blended many passions that led her into the field of air quality to begin with. She sought to leverage her (and her wonderful team's) experience with air quality emissions inventories and modeling and blend it with the valuable information from high-density sensor networks to develop a vibrant and insightful air quality modeling and mapping tool to be used for education, advocacy, and policy for cleaner air in vulnerable communities. As the conversation around community air protection shifts from traditional regional approaches to more local approaches, Shair is designed to help answer the challenging localized questions faced when developing strategies to reduce air pollution burden.

In her free time you can find Julia enjoying the outdoors - some of her favorite hobbies include hiking, camping, biking, soccer, ultimate frisbee, and pickleball. She also enjoys playing board games and card games with friends.