Julia Och
Director, RESTORE Project, Violence Prevention Network USA, Inc.
2024
Julia Och serves as the RESTORE Project Director with Violence Prevention Network USA, Inc. (VPN USA). She has fifteen years of experience in cross-sector collaboration, strategic planning, and project management with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in the Greater Pittsburgh region and beyond. Prior to joining VPN USA, Julia worked as the Director of Development Operations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. She also spent more than six years serving as the Project Manager for AIDS Free Pittsburgh, a collaborative public health movement to end HIV/AIDS as an epidemic in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree in International Development and Social Change and a master’s degree in Community Development and Planning from Clark University.
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
