Julika is a second-year MSFS student concentrating in Global Politics and Security. She is also a German Fulbright grantee and a scholarship recipient of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation. Before coming to Georgetown, Julika completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. Throughout her BA, she was enrolled in intensive Arabic classes and studied abroad for two semesters in Cairo, Egypt. Her last work experience before graduate school was as a student research assistant for a cooperation project on Rule of Law Promotion between her university in Berlin and the German Federal Foreign Office. During her undergraduate studies, Julika interned with the Aspen Institute in Berlin and the German Council on Foreign Relations. She also volunteered with refugees on the Greek island Lesbos and worked for a year as a teaching assistant through a government-funded project in Chile. Julika speaks German, English, Spanish, and Arabic.

During her time at Georgetown, Julika was a TA for a class in the Prisons and Justice Initiative and she currently works with Professor Ashley Lenihan as a MSFS Fellow for Alumni Engagement. This summer she interned at the UN headquarters in NYC in the committee for sanctions against the Taliban, Al-Qaida and ISIL in the Security Council Affairs Division. Apart from all things politics, she loves podcasts, musicals, writing postcards, and board games. After MSFS, she plans to join the German Foreign Service and continue her focus on security policy, transatlantic relations, stabilization, and post-conflict reconstruction.

"Having completed a BA focused on theory, I choose MSFS specifically because of its practice-oriented policy courses and practitioner faculty. From the very beginning, I was also drawn to the program’s emphasis on building a cohort community and striving for public service and leadership."