Julienne (she/they) is guided by the belief that art and stories can serve as invitations into liberated futures.
Julienne is a queer artist and co-founder of Libertroph Magazine, a culture-building project archiving white anti-racist organizing, past and present. Julienne makes art and shares stories that can serve as invitations into liberated futures. Julienne brings over seven years of experience as a narrative strategist at a racial and economic justice nonprofit, where they organized in partnership with city government, data partners, artists, and local community members to build a racially-just world.
In their art and organizing, Julienne seeks to reconnect with their cultural memory as a means of defying the white supremacy that incentivized their ancestors to give up their cultures. Julienne comes from generations of family with roots in New York by way of ancestors in Sicily, Poland, and west Ireland. Julienne's anti-racist practice is largely informed by People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) and their Undoing Racism Workshop, and Resmaa Menakem and his Somatic Abolitionism practice.
Julienne is most drawn to relational and collaborative work. She enjoys creative partnerships with grassroots organizers and nonprofit groups to create zines, comics and illustrations that uplift racial, economic, disability and healing justice. She is inspired by nature and what it can teach us about reciprocity, organizing, and flourishing.
Julienne lives in Washington DC, where she loves long walks in Rock Creek Park, tending to her balcony garden, and getting to know her neighbors.