The Foreign Service Journal, November 2021

AFSA NEWS 90 NOVEMBER 2021 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL The Foreign Service Journal Welcomes New Associate Editor AFSA is pleased to welcome Julia Wohlers to The Foreign Service Journal and the AFSA publications team as associate editor. Julia’s professional experience began with an internship in the public affairs section at Embassy Skopje. She then worked as an office management specialist in the front office of the State Department’s Bureau for International Organization Affairs from 2010 to 2011 before relocat- ing to Milan, Italy, to explore her creative interests. Over the next decade, she worked in a variety of roles, traversing Italy to write for a travel guide- book and developing digital marketing strategies and content for luxury brands. Julia also served as editor and creative director for a fashion industry maga- zine publisher, where she launched a new title target- ing an untapped market. She recently returned from a two-year adventure in Bogotá, Colombia. Growing up in a Foreign Service household, Julia was raised in Moscow, Nicosia, Skopje and Spring- field, Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and French from Covenant College in Lookout Moun- tain, Ga., and a master’s degree in visual design and digital communications from Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan. An avid traveler and photographer, Julia lives in Virginia with her husband and son. She can be reached at wohlers@afsa.org . n

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