Julie A. Green ’95

Julie A. Green ’95, Amherst, Massachusetts, has more than 25 years of nonprofit and leadership experience, encompassing strategic planning, fundraising, communications, board engagement and partnership development. She is currently chief development officer of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

From 2016 to 2022, Green served as executive director of New Futures, a Washington, D.C.-based, organization that provides under-resourced young people (“scholars”) with access to in-demand careers through affordable, shorter-term credentials and related career programming. Under her leadership, New Futures has clarified and overhauled its program, doubled its revenues, tripled the size of the staff, substantially improved organizational outcomes and expanded its regional impact.

Previously, Green was the chief marketing and development officer for E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. Over her 10 years in that role, annual fund revenues grew by more than 3,000 percent, and she led the school’s first-ever comprehensive campaign, raising more than $11 million for annual, capital and special projects between 2009 and 2012. Previously, Green was director of development for George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, where she raised private funds and built community fundraising organizations for the College’s Center for the Arts, Theater of the First Amendment and four academic arts departments. She has worked with Virginia Opera, The Washington Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Green is a member of Leadership Greater Washington’s Class of 2021, a member of the board of directors of Chelsea School, a member of the board of directors of Education Board Partners, and the former chair of the board of directors for Jubilee JumpStart.

Alumnae Association Board term: 2021–2024