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Julia Allen
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Climate Change, LGBTQIA+, Racial Injustice, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Refugee Crisis and Immigration, Economic Injustice, Labor issues, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Campaign Implementation, Designing impact guides, Alternative Distribution, Mentorship
- Cultural/racial identity:
- White
- Self identification:
- Female
Bio
Julia Steele Allen is an activist, community organizer, playwright/performer, writer, musician, and Impact Producer. She co-produced and was the Impact Producer for “Decade of Fire,” an award-winning documentary film about the burning of the Bronx in the 1970’s, which premiered in 2018, and had over 100 grassroots screenings across the mainland and Puerto Rico, and won the 2019-2020 PBS’ Independent Lens Audience Award. From 2014-2017 she co-wrote, produced and performed “Mariposa & the Saint: From Solitary Confinement, A Play Through Letters” which she performed over seventy times across ten states, using it as an organizing tool in the growing movement to end solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. She works at the intersection of art and organizing as an Impact Producer for social issue documentary films. Currently she is the Impact Producer for the Rise-Home Stories Project and the documentary film “Razing Liberty Square.” www.juliasteeleallen.com
