Aspen Policy Academy

Julia Niederman

About Julia

Julia is a director of creative services and front-end technologies. She began her career as an Illustrator and Graphic Designer, and quickly fell in love with the technology and practices behind bringing the craft of UX online. She joined a small first-generation web practice and helped to grow the firm from 7 to 100 people, leading the team through the firm’s acquisition by an 8,000-person global agency. She has an MFA in Graphic Communications from WashU in St.Louis, continued studies at Johns Hopkins and the Maryland Art Institute, and certification as a Change Management Practitioner. She spends her free time with her daughter and fiancé, and in her painting studio, where she practices the zen of painting tiny details on very large canvases.