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Julie joined KEYE CBS 42 as a General Assignment reporter in November 2002. Julie was born in New Haven, CT but since her family moved to Las Vegas when she was 4-years-old, she considers Sin City her home. "Most people think it's strange that I actually grew up in Las Vegas," she says. "I never thought so until I moved away from there. I have to laugh when people ask me if we lived in a house or a hotel." The answer is a house. Julie earned at B.A. from American University in Washington D.C. While living in D.C. she worked on Capitol Hill for Sen. Harry Reid, for the crime tracker show America's Most Wanted, and at CNN's White House Bureau. During her junior year, her studies took her to Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, China, and Japan on a program called Semester at Sea. It was an incredible journey, a chance for me to see places I had only read about in books. Julie knew she wanted to be in TV news from a very young age. "I used to get goose bumps when the breaking news music would interrupt programming," she says. Julie began her broadcast career in 1998 at KVBC in Las Vegas. She worked there for two years as a Special Projects Producer. While there, she won the Electronic Media Award for Best 3-5 Part Series. Since she loved working in the field and wanted to pursue reporting, she moved to Reno and spent two years there as a General Assignment reporter for the NBC station, KRNV. Soon after leaving, Julie landed in Austin. I am a transplanted Texan and proud of it, she declares now. "Austin is the most unique, welcoming, and energetic city I've ever lived in. It's a real gem. It's my home now." In March of 2004 Julie won the coveted Associated Press Texas Reporter of the Year award. In 2005, Julie covered Hurricane Rita and she calls it the most exhilarating and meaningful story she's covered. "Watching man against Mother Nature is almost a dreamlike sequence. I felt privileged to be able to tell people's stories through our visual medium." | 