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Julia Wright

McGill University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022 Loran Scholar
King's View Academy

While pursuing their B.Sc. in chemistry and math at McGill University, Julia co-founded and currently leads MycoNurseries, a non-profit focused on sustainably growing edible mushrooms, which has received over $20,000 in funding. Passionate about ending sexual violence, Julia interned with Consent Labs, a charity providing holistic sexual consent education across Australia, and is a peer educator with McGill University’s Office for Sexual Violence Response, Support, and Education. They also wrote an article on their nonbinary identity for CBC and volunteered in the kitchen of the Meals-on-Wheels charity Santropol Roulant.