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 Julie has almost 30 years of conservation and development experience working to reduce human-wildlife conflict around the world by building markets and wildlife friendly supply chains for goods and services that achieve triple-bottom-line goals of people, profit, and planet. She led signature efforts to link certified enterprises which protect the worlds most endangered wildlife with global partners in the food, health and beauty, textile and tourism sectors. She worked closely with companies seeking to achieve conservation goals in high biodiversity landscapes and participated in public-private partnerships to quantify and improve outcomes in raw materials sourcing for the benefit of people and wildlife around the world. She was a co-founding board member of the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network and served as the organization's first Executive Director for a decade. Julie has helped co-found several conservation start-up's, and has served as a board and steering committee member for, and consultant to social justice and environmental foundations and non-profit organizations. She has mentored future conservation leaders at Yale and beyond, and  continues to advise conservation efforts around the world. Julie holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia, and an M.E.S. in Conservation Biology from the Yale School of Forestry.