Julia is an award-winning investigative journalist, founder of the nonprofit journalism studio Proof News, a
bestselling author, and a New York Times contributing Opinion Writer.
Sbe is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for her work at The Wall
Street Journal and ProPublica. She founded the nonprofit newsroom, The Markup. And she is the author of
the New York Times bestseller “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of
Relentless Surveillance” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular
Website in America” (Random House, March 2009).

She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of
Business at Columbia University. She is currently a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at
Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and was previously
Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia Journalism School’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation.