Julia's design and making practice centers around bio-based material development, natural building techniques, and the circular economy. Julia earned her BFA in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design and her MA in Design for Emergent Futures at Instituto de Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya (IAAC) & ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny. She has worked at award winning furniture design studios such as Jabuticasa and Jan Hendzel Studio and as a welder, woodworker and ceramic assistant for blue-chip artist, Genesis Belanger. In 2023, she completed a postgraduate program in Management and Communication of an Applied Design Project at ELISAVA & Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências (ISEC Lisboa). Her research focused on the potential of sugarcane bagasse as a material for the interior design and interior architecture sector and laid the foundation for the Bagaceira Project.