Julia (she/her) is the 2026-2028 Dash-Muse Teaching Fellow & Supervising Attorney at the Human Rights Institute. Prior to serving in this role, Julia worked on child rights and child protection initiatives with UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Office. Her work involved initiatives for children in the context of migration, access to justice and effective remedies, and the right to health. She has supported visits by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to the Philippines and Viet Nam and contributed to country-specific and regional submissions to the Committee on access to justice. Her areas of research include the exploitation of unaccompanied minors through child labor; root causes of child marriage in varying contexts; and child rights trends across the East Asia and Pacific region, with a specific focus on the disparate impact of rights violations by gender.

Prior to her work with UNICEF, Julia was a Supervising Attorney at Legal Aid in Washington, D.C., where she represented survivors of domestic violence and supervised attorneys litigating domestic violence, family law, and immigration cases. Her work included addressing systemic issues in the District through legislation drafting, testimony before the D.C. Council, and managing implementation of an access to justice initiative. She also served as a National Training and Technical Assistance Attorney for the ABA’s Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence.

Julia holds an Advanced Master’s in International Children’s Rights from Leiden University and a J.D. and Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies from Georgetown University Law Center.