Julie Quiroz (she/her) is the founder and lead strategist of New Moon Collaborations, which nurtures leaps in culture to transform systems and structures for generations to come. Prior to New Moon, Quiroz served on the Movement Strategy Center (MSC) leadership team, which created the MSC Transitions Initiative to deepen transformative cultural power for Just Transition. In 2020, Quiroz helped spark the creation of Birth Center Equity, the first network of BIPOC-led community birth centers in the country, where she is now a strategy and narrative advisor. Quiroz is cofounder of the Untold Stories of Liberation & Love women of color poetry collective. She is the editor of Untold Stories’ anthology Love & Other Futures. For more of Quiroz’s writing, visit www.newmooncollab.org/blog.