Bio
For over 25 years, Julie Weinstein has dedicated her career to social and environmental justice, guiding organizations in transformational expansion and sustainability efforts to advance the rights of people and protect the planet.
Since 2013, Julie serves as chief development officer for the ACLU of Southern California, and previously from 2011-2013 for the ACLU of New Mexico. She has helped lead and complete some of the most ambitious fundraising campaigns in ACLU’s history which include launching ACLU’s first Regional Center for Border Rights, winning marriage equality, protecting abortion access, opening two additional regional offices in California’s most impacted communities, responding to inhumane and illegal ICE raids, and more.
And for several years, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Audubon New Mexico, where she led historic environmental justice initiatives, in partnerships with Native American tribes and local communities along the Rio Grande, Colorado, San Juan and Gila Rivers, to influence life-saving conservation outcomes.
Julie is an ordained rabbi, and also serves as a senior chaplain in the Los Angeles County jails, as well as a movement chaplain providing spiritual care and pastoral support to activists, attorneys, organizers, and communities impacted by injustice. For nearly three decades, she has been dedicated to the preservation and advancement of Jewish death and dying practices, and provides grief, loss and trauma support.