Julia Friedman

Background

About Julia Friedman

Julia is a strategic communications leader with more than 15 years of experience in both agency and in-house settings. A compassionate and collaborative professional, Julia has a passion and expertise in communications for social change. She is an experienced relationship-builder and people-manager with strong conceptual, strategic and creative thinking abilities, and a sound understanding of a broad range of communication disciplines, including both internal and external communications. Julia is detail oriented, process-driven, analytical, decisive, and highly organized with a strong personal interest in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion practices within organizations and beyond. Julia currently manages and directs organizational communications, including both internal, external and executive communications for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, an $8.5 billion private foundation addressing needs within communities globally and within the U.S. She partners across departments to improve strategic thinking and leverage the organization's resources to best effect, regularly engaging with media across the globe to enhance the Hilton Foundation’s storytelling capabilities and share widely the work of the organization. Prior to joining the Foundation, Julia spent more than a decade working at global public relations firms where she managed public relations and communications campaigns for a variety of corporate/social responsibility and non-profit clients including Bank of America, Allstate Insurance, Chrysalis,(RED), Special Olympics and many more.