Julia has worked as an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist and advocate in south Florida for more than 15 years. Julia has a Ph.D in environmental science and policy, and is an expert in stakeholder engagement, facilitation, policy developmen
Julia Wester has worked as an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist and advocate in south Florida for more than 15 years. She completed her master’s at Oxford in conservation biology and management before working on state policy as a legislative aide in the Florida Senate. She then completed her Ph.D. at the Abess Center studying how emotions and norms shape public environmental attitudes and policy development. She has collaborated on projects funded by the Save Our Seas Foundation and National Geographic Explorer to study human-wildlife interactions in south Florida and the southern Caribbean. She is an expert in stakeholder engagement, facilitation, policy development, and designing for social change.