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.
It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.
