Julia Campbell is a Junior at Indiana University Bloomington's (IUB) Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, majoring in East Asian Languages and Cultures with a concentration in Korean. She started teaching herself Korean in her Junior year of high school and discovered her passion for learning the language. She has been studying Korean for almost three years, and she is planning to attend Yonsei University next Spring through IUB's exchange program.
Julia is extensively involved in IUB's branch of Liberty in North Korea as the Education Chair. In this capacity, she monitors current news about North Korea, presents on current affairs, and works with the Club President to determine meeting content, topics, and activities. She has learned about the many human rights violations North Korean citizens face and wants to be more involved in advocating for the rights of North Koreans. By interning for HRNK, she hopes to apply her passion for North Korean human rights in an impactful way.
Julia is also an advocate for neurodiversity in the workplace and for women with Autism. Because she was diagnosed with Autism extremely late in her life, she has partaken in multiple studies on campus in the hopes of helping to close the disparity between data availability for women versus men with Autism. She hopes that by being transparent about her diagnosis, she can be a role model for other women and show the world that being neurodiverse is an asset, not an obstacle.
After completing her undergraduate degree, Julia intends to pursue a Masters in Korean Studies at a Korean university. Once she has completed her education, she aspires to have a long-term career as an intelligence analyst.