Julia Holtemeyer

Julia Holtemeyer (MPP) is the Resource & Training Specialist for the Stalking, Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC), an AEquitas initiative. In her role, she provides training and technical assistance, develops original resources, and collaborates with partners to enhance the ability of multidisciplinary professionals to recognize and respond to stalking.

Julia’s anti-violence work began as a college student, when she worked at a rape crisis center and as a peer health educator. She later served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania, where she lived and worked at a secondary school in a small rural community, teaching mathematics, health, and life skills, including discussing domestic and sexual violence. Julia went on to work in gender integration in global health, and then to improve the criminal justice response to crimes of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking.

Julia graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics, and from the George Washington University with a Master of Public Policy and a Graduate Certificate of Women’s Studies. Julia applies her experience with domestic and sexual violence, women’s studies, global health, public policy, and knowledge management to her commitment to justice. Julia is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.