Meet Julia.

Julia first felt called to ordained ministry in the Free Methodist tradition. That calling eventually led her into the Episcopal Church, where she was ordained a deacon in June 2025 in the Diocese of Massachusetts and ordained to the priesthood in December 2025. She currently serves as Priest-in-Charge at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Warwick, Rhode Island, where she brings a decade of parish ministry experience to a community she's come to love as sacred space, bringing a pastor's heart for sacramental care alongside a practitioner's instinct for building bridges beyond the church walls.

Julia is a first-generation college graduate with a B.A. in Religion from Westmont College and a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School, which she completed in 2018. A West Coast transplant, she grew up moving often, including time in Alaska and Oregon, before spending her adolescent years in Kailua, Hawaii. As soon as she possibly could, she moved from Kailua to Santa Barbara, California for her undergraduate studies, and has since made her home in Rhode Island.

Before coming to St. Mark's, Julia spent years in youth and family ministry, serving as Youth Pastor at Trinity Episcopal Church and as Children's Director and Associate Minister at St. James's Episcopal Church. That decade of hands-on parish work, paired with a personal understanding of Christ's healing in the midst of pain, shapes how she leads today: with an eye toward intersectionality, trauma-informed care, and popular culture as a lens for talking about faith.

It has not been an easy road, but she is thankful to be part of a healthy marriage, a vibrant Church tradition, and to share the healing of Christ with others through her writing, preaching, teaching, and beyond. She considers it her life's purpose to depend on God in our current social context, always finding Jesus' voice at the intersection of faith and culture.