Julianne/Juliana

(she/her/ella) is a bilingual, bicultural educator, writer, editor, translator, and audio journalist. Before pursuing journalism full-time, she spent ten years leading and overseeing immersive experiential education programming for youth across Latin America. She is passionate about multi-form storytelling centered on social and environmental justice, and is currently at work on a genealogy of autonomous feminist movements in the Bolivian Andes.

Julianne has been based out of Cochabamba, Bolivia since 2009 but also resides on occupied Lenape territory in Brooklyn and on unceded Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute territory in Boulder, Colorado. She completed a joint MA in Global Journalism and Latin American & Caribbean Studies as a MacCracken Fellow at New York University, and also holds an MA in Poverty and Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She currently works as an editor and contributor at the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). She is motivated by contributing to high-quality, data-driven narratives that help us confront violence and abuse of power and imagine more sustainable futures for our children and our planet.