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Julia Wright

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

While pursuing their B.Sc. in mathematics, Julia co-founded and continues to lead MycoNurseries, a non-profit focused on sustainably growing oyster mushrooms, which has received over $35,000 in funding. When not in the mushroom lab, Julia works at the McGill Office of Sustainability as a sustainable labs intern. They enjoy spending their free time in nature, reading, or learning more about the world. Also an avid writer, they wrote an article on their nonbinary identity for CBC and interned in the communications department of the India Autism Center.