Julia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She researches news media and political accountability in the United States. Prior to beginning her PhD, she worked at a litigation consulting firm in Washington DC for two years. Before that, she completed her BA at Georgetown University where she majored in economics and government and minored in mathematics.
My research agenda involves rethinking our approach to studying media effects and the ways that media can affect policy. I consider when news coverage leads to policy change and who benefits. My work examines what kinds of people and incidents receive news coverage and how news coverage gets in front of people who have the power to change policy. Evaluating the role of news media in political accountability has required collecting data from a wide variety of sources, including filing FOIA requests for documents held by the Presidential Libraries and federal agencies.