Julia Rubin is a blogger, writer, editor, educator, translator, and photographer from Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BA in Psychology from Clark University and is working on her MFA in fiction at UMASS Boston. She believes in writing as a means for advocacy, change, and sharing the human experience. Julia works as a program assistant for Raising A Reader Massachusetts, where she promotes the value of family book sharing and the importance of making literacy accessible to people of all backgrounds. To see more of Julia’s work, check out juliarubinwriting.wordpress.com