Pamela S. Julian, a resident of Brookline and former resident of
West Roxbury, has been a longtime community activist with a focus on civic education and civic engagement advocacy. She is the principal author of the pending on-campus student voter registration bills in New York, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. The legislation would allow eligible high school and college student voters to register to vote on-campus. When the legislation passes, the student voter registration system will be the first in the nation on-campus student voter registration system. Julian is the founder of the Help Students Vote! Coalition, a cross generational organization aimed at helping pass the pending student voter bills, promoting and establishing intergrated civic curriculum on high school and college campuses.
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, she earned a BA with a concentration in public policy, psychology, political science, and film studies. She was awarded the first Raymond Seidelman Political Advocacy Fellowship in 2009. While attending Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley, she was editor in chief of the student newspaper, The Beacon. Julian is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society and a nominee for the Mass Bay Community College Board of Trustees.
Before returning to college, she was the owner and operator of a high-end retail gift and clothing store in Hingham for three years, owner and operator of a licensed after-school child-care program in Brookline, owner and operator of an inn and cottage business and real estate development in Newbury, New Hampshire, and former host of a CBS affiliated live radio political talk show in Concord, New Hampshire. She also wrote and produced advertising and promotions for an independent television station in Manchester, New Hampshire. In recent elections, she has been and is an elected delegate for the upcoming 2010 Democratic State Convention. She has worked as a political consultant and field manager for several campaigns, including the winning primary campaign to elect John Rauh for U.S. Senate. Julian organized the city of Concord, New Hampshire for the winning campaign to elect Dick Swett for U.S. Congress. She was also a precinct captain in the campaign to elect David Finnegan mayor of Boston in 1984, organizing Bellevue Hill, one of the winning precincts for the mayoral candidate.
A single mother, she has two adult children, Anthony and Courtney
Julian Byrne. Anthony is a 1999 graduate of Emerson College and
Courtney is a 2009 graduate of Northeastern University.
Volunteer:
YMCA, West Roxbury After School Program Library Reading Volunteer, former Brookline Youth soccer coach, former Brookline Parent-Teacher Association member, former elected town library trustee chair in Newbury, New Hampshire
STAFF
Julian said, “Our hard working, energetic, intelligent, educated, and passionate staff is highly motivated and dedicated to social progress, civic engagement, and winning on
Election Day.
Sarah Horn, Campaign Manager and Special Policy Advisor, is a Brookline native and a 2008 graduate of Boston College, where she studied political science and economics. Horn also studied at the London School of Economics. After graduation, she began teaching in Teach for America in Houston, Texas. Horn is interested in discovering community-based solutions to mitigate the effects of poverty. While teaching in Houston, she was awarded Campus Teacher of the Year. Horn chose to join Julian’s campaign because, “Pamela and I agree on social justice issues such as fundamentally improving public education, making college affordable for working families, and the passage of a living wage public policy.”
Noah Benjamin, Field Manager and Policy Advisor, is a Brookline High School graduate. Benjamin is studying a unique combination of political science and chemistry at American University’s School of Government. This summer, he returned home to Brookline to look for an opportunity to get involved in politics in his own community. He found Pamela Julian! Benjamin says, “I am so glad to have found Pamela. She is a true progressive candidate who does not merely pander to her audience: just what I was searching for.”
Elizabeth Hawley, Media Relations Advisor, is a recent University of Massachusetts Amherst alum, a product of the Boston Public School System and a lifelong resident of Boston. Throughout her college career, Elizabeth worked to promote progressive ideals on campus through MASSPIRG and STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition. Elizabeth got involved with the Pamela Julian Campaign because “it is time to put a real progressive voice in the state house, and I believe that Pamela Julian is that voice.”
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