Julie lives and works in New York City. As a native New Yorker, she received her BA from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and her MLA from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She has worked at several large international firms in New York City. In 2005, she founded a studio, XS Space, and completed a temporary landscape/multi-media installation entitled Temporary Landscape: A Pasture for Urban Space in the Columbia Waterfront District in Brooklyn. In 2007 she worked in collaboration with Balmori Associates and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to complete an 8,000-square-foot public space, Urban Meadow, which is now a permanent park located in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In 2009 she collaborated with The Public Art Fund to build a temporary landscape installation in Tribeca. Her work has focused on international projects in Rwanda and Nepal as well as residential landscapes on the east end of Long Island, Greenwich Connecticut, and townhouse landscapes in Brooklyn and New York City.

Her work has appeared in numerous publications and books, including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, The Architect’s Newspaper, The New York Post, Gardenista, and the publication, Design Brooklyn, and recently featured in the book, Gardenista, and Openhouse NYC. Julie served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and was Co-Founder of The Big Future Group, an interdisciplinary design firm working in countries in need.