About Me

I’m Julia. I wasn’t raised in the traditional sense, by the time I was six, I was already navigating life mostly on my own. I’m from East Menlo Park, California, a place most people don’t even realize exists, tucked just across the freeway from the tech world’s biggest empires. I wasn’t supposed to make it into those worlds, but I did. I’ve worked at companies like Meta, TikTok, and Spotify. I’ve also survived homelessness, foster care, and the kinds of losses you don’t always come back from. And still—I’m here, building something new.

Right now, I’m working on a documentary called Invisible Lines, a personal story about family, memory, and what it means to survive when the systems around you don’t expect you to. Years ago, I made a different documentary—Tzedakah, a short film about studying the Holocaust in Germany and Poland as a Black student at a Catholic university, minoring in Jewish Studies. I didn’t know anything about being Jewish before that. I just knew I was curious. That same curiosity drives everything I do.. I like throwing myself into places and experiences that don’t make immediate sense and figuring out what they reveal.

I tell stories through film, through writing, through conversation—that sit in contradiction. My essays are often about grief, identity, dating, complicated relationships, and the quiet parts of survival. But I’m also someone who travels the world, dates while she does it, and loves being in on the joke. My life is light and messy and sometimes deeply painful .. and that’s kind of the point. I make space for all of it.

This site is a way to bring it all together. The writing. The travel. The documentary work. The big questions I ask and the weird little details I notice along the way.