Julia Morgan is a journalist and freelance writer with more than ten years’ experience as a communications professional. She founded her consulting business in 2003. As a journalist, she has written for a wide variety of audiences and publications, including Saturday Night, Reader’s Digest, Homemakers, The Globe and Mail and The Utne Reader. She specializes in writing about innovative approaches to social problems, and has also written frequently about disability issues, research results, and child development. Julia has been interviewed in the media as a result of some of her magazine features, and for the past four years she has been a guest speaker at Ryerson University, talking to aspiring freelance writers about her writing career.

Her freelance communications work has been for major national and international clients in non-profit, government and corporate sectors. Some of her past and current clients include: CNIB, Colborne Communications, AMD Alliance International, Roots of Empathy, and Ecojustice (formerly the Sierra Legal Defence Fund). She is an accomplished communications strategist, researcher, writer and editor who consistently gets results, whether she is crafting media releases that snag national headlines, creating fundraising proposals that hit their mark, ghostwriting winning speeches or articles for executives, or writing advocacy materials that end up changing public policy.

Julia has also been a writer/interviewer on two documentaries, Hop to, Toronto!, which screened in Toronto and was reviewed on CBC Radio One, and B.Y.O.C. (the story of the 2003 World Rubik’s Cube Championship). She has also been an associate producer on a documentary called Poor No More and is currently working as a producer on her fourth documentary project.

She is a believer in the power of simplicity and plain language, and feels Albert Einstein never spoke truer words when he said “Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”

Julia is a member of Toronto Freelance Writers and Editors, the Canadian Freelancers’ Union and the Documentary Association of Canada.