Julie Ju-Youn Kim, AIA is Professor and Chair at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, where she is the current director of the Flourishing Communities Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research and design lab. Julie has been nationally recognized with a 2024 AIAS Educator Impact Honor Award; 2023 AIA Georgia Educator of the Year, and the 2023 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award for connecting the academy and architectural practice and for creating replicable models of engagement expanding equity. Julie is a licensed architect whose publications link her leadership and teaching in pursuit of interdisciplinarity in architecture education, research, and practice. She is editor and author of Interdisciplinary Design Thinking in Architecture Education (Routledge, 2023); contributing author to the forthcoming Teaching Carbon Neutrality: A Compilation of Award-winning Architectural Design Studio Methodologies (Routledge); and contributing author to Teaching and Designing in Detroit: Ten Women on Pedagogy and Practice (Routledge, 2020). She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and a Master of Architecture from MIT.