Julia Helmes is the Program Officer at DWIH New York. She is responsible for event programming, planning and communications, as well as office management. Prior to joining DWIH New York, she worked for an arts nonprofit in Boston, teaching visual art and creative writing and working as an Outreach Coordinator. Julia studied literature at Barnard College, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Trinity College Dublin, where she earned an M.Phil. in Children’s Literature.