Julienne Kaleta

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About Julienne Kaleta

At Living Cities, Julienne leads learning and storytelling for the Closing the Gaps Network. Julienne partners with city government representatives, data partners, creatives, and local community members to tell stories about how they are organizing to implement wealth-building strategies for BIPOC and visions for their communities in a racially just world. She also facilitates learning and evaluation processes for the Cities and Community Engagement team, which invites reflection that informs content and guides their work going forward. Julienne is an artist who specializes in comics and digital illustration. She makes art and tells stories that expand our capacity for imagining new possibilities for the future, grow practices of care and solidarity, and invite us to hold onto softness. Julienne is an alum of University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she organized for resources to support survivors and a curriculum that recognized the history of the Wilmington Massacre in 1898.