Julia, 21 years old

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Julia is studying public and nonprofit management and leadership at Indiana University. Since aging out of foster care, Julia has done a variety of advocacy work within the child welfare system, including inspirational speaking, drafting, testifying for legislation, representing foster youth perspectives on informational panels, and sitting as a youth representative on the Commission for Children and Family. Julia is passionate about a variety of issues within child welfare, such as permanency, reunification, incarcerated parents and rehabilitation, congregate care usage, and older youth outcomes. As an advocate for change, Julia’s focus is to shed light on issues within the foster youth community and help provide lived experience expertise within legislation to help improve foster youth outcomes as a whole.

Julia is returning back to college in the fall and is looking forward to another year of learning and new experiences. She has always been a great student with high-achieving academics. In order to continue this streak of A+ worthy work, she needs to have access to textbooks, notebooks, online learning materials and more. School supplies add up quickly and an Amazon gift card can help ease Julia's worries about cost of supplies.