Julia’s Bio
Julia is a Specialist Consultant for Edessa Research. With over seven years of relevant experience in the WASH sector, Julia brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the Edessa team, especially with regards to creating and delivering effective training geared for in-country teams on best practices in mobile data collection and evaluation. Her past experience encompasses community development as well as disaster response.
Most recently, Julia was program design lead for a 1.5-million-dollar COVID-19 emergency response program for Water Mission, culminating in the installation of at least 8,500 hand-washing stations in clinics, prisons, schools, markets, and more, serving more than 800,000 people across 10 countries. She has also contributed to several publications and has presented at conferences and forums on numerous occasions, dating back to 2014.
Julia has a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Policy and Planning, a Master of Science in Geography, a Master of Public Health, and a Graduate certificate in Global Planning and International Development Studies all from Virginia Tech.
Julia is thrilled to be consulting with Edessa because she is passionate about seeing nonprofit organizations collect, use, and learn from good data to continually improve their approaches. She says, “Good monitoring and evaluation practice allows organizations to honor the communities they serve through entering as listeners, enabling local community members as experts, and responding and adapting to what they learn to always be improving.” Julia lives in Clemson, South Carolina with her black lab, Wagner. She loves hiking, backpacking, reading novels by international authors, taking her dog for adventures in the mountains, and traveling!