Theatre maker, educator, and scholar focused on prison arts and community-based performance, Julie has created performances with refugees, people with disabilities, youth experiencing homelessness, professional actors, and people dying in hospice. For over 12 years, she has created original works with incarcerated artists, founding programs in four state prison systems. She helped establish the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI) and now directs ACT Ensemble within the Colorado Department of Corrections. Her writing on abolitionist and participatory performance appears in Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making (2024), Prison Pedagogies (2018), and journals including ArtsPraxis and Theatre Topics. Julie also led youth justice advocacy with Mirror Image Arts, advancing policy reform and community awareness. She is Chair of Visual & Performing Arts at the Community College of Aurora and co-founder of Grapefruit Lab, a Denver-based queer multimedia performance collective.