Julia is an outreach nurse/case manager at the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury. She brings over a decade of experience working with Latinx migrant farmworkers in health care and has spearheaded innovative projects to enhance health access. Julia has grown the clinic’s health outreach program to include over 45 farms. She partnered with VT Folklife and others to create the book, “The Most Costly Journey,” an anthology of stories that was chosen as the Vermont Read’s 2022 book.
Julia graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in Environmental Science and an RN from Vermont Tech. She is a certified medical interpreter and fluent in Spanish. She has lived and worked in Mexico and Central America.