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Biography:
Julie Mutis is the Community Outreach Worker at CELA and works on files related to the Healthy Great Lakes program. Having grown up on the shores of Lake Huron, she developed an interest in protecting waterways at an early age. While completing her Bachelor of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University, she contributed to the Toronto Star’s Tainted Water series, which shed light on drinking water quality issues across Canada.
In 2020, Julie worked as a Communication and Campaign Intern at CELA before moving on to complete her Master of Health Promotion at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Since graduating, she has worked as a Policy Analyst with the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Family and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Unit, where she advanced work on youth dating violence prevention and violence-related brain injury. She also spent time as a Research Assistant at the Women’s College Hospital Research Institute and co-authored a scoping review of sex trafficking research in Canada.
In her spare time, she enjoys playing board games, fostering cats, knitting, and taking long walks through the Toronto Ravine System.