Julie is the Manager of Community Organizing at I AM ALS and is here to support and amplify the incredible work of the community teams. She is a macro social worker and received her MSW from Tulane University. She has extensive experience in legislative and community advocacy in the US and Canada in non-profit, member associations, and union settings.

After two long years of a diagnostic journey, her mother, Mary Ellen, passed away with a probable corticobasal degeneration diagnosis. Corticobasal degeneration is a terminal progressive neurodegenerative disease with no diagnostics, treatment, cure, and can only be confirmed post mortem. Julie is committed to doing everything she can to raise awareness of neurodegenerative diseases like CBD and ALS and support those living with those diseases, in memory of her mother.