Hi, I’m Julia. I’m a visual practitioner. Which means I’m a graphic recorder, branding consultant, and graphic designer.

Over my career, I’ve (in loosely chronological order):

• Become an MG RUSH Certified Structured Professional Facilitator (CSPF) and endorsed as a graphic recorder
• Interviewed by Gerry Dick on Inside Indiana Business
• Featured on the DRNK CLTR podcast, about Indianapolis leaders
• Been highlighted as a visual note-taker in the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 2018 Innovation Issue
• Earned the designation Brand Academy Certified Branding Expert (2015) from the Brand Academy
• Participated in NY Designs, a unique design business incubator based in LIC, Queens
• Co-founded SPARK, a group of independent graphic design business owners who meet monthly in NYC to enlighten each other on the business and creative issues that are relevant to design studios
• Won the 2009 Small Business Award from the Cayuga County NY Chamber of Commerce
• Been featured in several design books including “The Big Book of Green Design,” “1000 More Greetings,” “Best of Business Card Design,” and “Recycling & Redesigning Logos”
• Been named a “trailblazer whose career embraces the common good” by Catalysta.net (Profiles of Trailblazers who Innovate with Community in Mind: A Marketing Primer for Non-Profit Orgs)
  
• Achieved Advanced Communicator Gold in Toastmasters
• Been a former environmental educator
• Earned a Level 1 with the Bike Instructor Certification Program as a mountain bike coach
• Earned degrees from Pratt Institute in New York City and Hampshire College in Amherst, MA

When I’m not busy doing visual communications stuff, I can be found:

• Mountain biking
• Walking my bulldog Violet the Wigglepig
• Cuddling my 7 cats
• ‘Gramming photos as @motherofcoonhounds (personal account) and @stonesoupcreate (professional account)