Julie Russo is a second year Master of Public Health student at Virginia Commonwealth University where she serves as president to the Public Health Student Association. She received her B.S. in Health Sciences from James Madison University in 2019. Her journey with public health started as a Teen Pregnancy Prevention program specialist and has since had the opportunity to work in intersecting research areas such as adverse childhood experiences, the trauma-to-prison pipeline, and human trafficking awareness. Through her work in the MPH program, she has taken an abstract concept of a community need to create a tangible deliverable constructed with the Stages of Change theoretical framework. She plans to share the development of a support group facilitators' manual geared towards the friends and families of human trafficking survivors.
