Julie

Julie Fernandes is an Associate Director at the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) and Managing Director of the Democracy & Power Innovation Fund, a research collaborative focused on learning to strengthen multiracial democratic practice. Prior to joining RFF Julie served as Advocacy Director for Democracy at the Open Society Foundations, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice, Special Assistant for Domestic Policy to President Bill Clinton, and Senior Counsel at the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, where she led the coalition’s successful campaign to reauthorize the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Julie currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Climate Equity Action Fund, the Treatment and Learning Centers, and the Georgetown Day School. Julie received her J.D. and A.B. degrees from the University of Chicago and clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.