Julie Lee works with Microfinance Opportunities’ financial education team to develop curricula and tools, design and implement the organization’s “Training of Trainers” workshops, manage field projects and provide technical assistance to local partners.

Prior to Microfinance Opportunities, Julie served as the director of studies at a private language school in Virginia that serves international students. She also worked as a consultant for the United Nations Crime and Justice Research Institute, where she designed and implemented training workshops for Nigerian NGOs working on transitional assistance programs for victims of trafficking. She was also an advocacy project fellow at The Transnational AIDS/STI Prevention Among Migrant Prostitutes in Europe Project (TAMPEP) Association in Turin, Italy, where she supported the development of reintegration and livelihoods projects for trafficked women.

Julie has held various teaching positions both in the U.S. and abroad. She was an instructor at the Sichuan International Studies University in Chongqing, China, and she spent two years in Zimbabwe as a secondary school English teacher and librarian with the U.S. Peace Corps.

Julie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in U.S. history and English from Suffolk University in Boston, and studied for two years at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Service.