Trillium Resources Group
Julia Washburn
Principal
Julia Washburn is a conservation professional with more than 20 years experience working to help people of all ages form deep personal connections with their environment and heritage. She is passionate about helping organizations provide excellent and effective programs that make a difference for people and the planet.
Washburn specializes in planning, program design, training, and effective management strategies. She works with parks, museums, and non-profit organizations to develop interpretive and education long range plans, as well as programs and media. Recently, Washburn provided staff support and expertise to the National Parks Second Century Commission regarding a national vision for education in the next century of the National Park Service. In 2007, she led a diverse collaborative team of leaders from across the National Park Service through a process that resulted in an emerging movement to renew and revitalize the NPS Interpretation and Education Program. A national business plan, three-year action plan, national evaluation strategy, and three-day evaluation summit were a few of the products resulting from the process.
Washburn also serves as adjunct professor for the Museum Education Program at The George Washington University, where she teaches courses on Museum Audiences and Grant Proposal Writing.
Washburn served as Interpretive Specialist for the NPS Conservation Study Institute at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, and Senior Vice President for Grants and Programs at the National Park Foundation, the congressionally chartered, non-profit fundraising partner of the National Park Service. She has also worked as a park ranger and education specialist at six national parks, the NPS National Capital Region Office, and as a science teacher in the U.S. Peace Corps. She holds a master’s degree in museum education leadership from Bank Street College of Education and a bachelor’s degree is biology and psychology from Mount Holyoke College.
Washburn likes to say that her conservation career really started at the age of seven when she was a junior ranger at Rock Creek National Park. She now lives with her husband and two junior rangers in Takoma Park, Maryland.