Julie Germany serves as the Deputy Director of The Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet. She worked as a writer, editor and program manager for international initiatives in Korea, Ukraine, Haiti and the United States. Julie is a founding member of Young Champions, a non-profit that works with youth health issues.

She served as the principal author and editor of the Institute’s The Politics-to-Go Handbook: A Guide to Using Mobile Technology in Politics and The Political Consultants’ Online Fundraising Primer, and co-authored Putting Online Influentials to Work for Your Campaign and Under the Radar and Over the Top: Online Political Web Videos in the 2004 Campaign. Julie has been interviewed by local, national and international media, including Fox News, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC (Spain), Le Monde, CNet and UPI.

She is a graduate of Messiah College, where she studied at Keble College, Oxford University and in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was a Pew Younger Scholar of Literature at the University of Notre Dame. She received an M.A. from The George Washington University, where she was a University Fellow.