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Julie is a bilingual training facilitator and linguistics specialist with extensive experience supporting international training programs, conferences and large-scale security activities involving national and international organizations to include the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, NATO, the United Nations and the African Union. A retired U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer, she completed an initial seven years of active duty assigned to shipboard and shore-based commands, followed by a fifteen-year period of active reserve service during which time she balanced academic pursuits with several active-duty mobilizations to Africa and Europe. Specific highlights include her selection by the Defense Intelligence Agency to fulfill two key assignments as Acting Defense Attaché to U.S. Embassies Djibouti and Burkina Faso where she was responsible for setting up Attaché operations, reporting and personnel procedures in both countries. Following these assignments, she recently completed a six-year contract as the lead French interpreter/translator for U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany.

Currently residing in Spain, Julie regularly leads linguist teams tasked with providing optimal communication support for U.S. Department of Defense air collaboration, medical and security assistance programs in Africa. She also provides conference interpretation and translation services for American and European maritime security and cybersecurity clients.

Julie holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpretation from the University of Las Palmas (Spain), and a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her ongoing research is focused on cultural and sociolinguistic challenges of communication in the defense and security sectors of Francophone Africa.

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