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Julia Bolz is a social justice advocate and co-founder of the Journey with an Afghan School program, a project in partnership with the American Friendship Foundation. A former Seattle attorney, in 1998 she left her law firm to serve as an adviser in developing countries for humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. She has volunteered with dozens of nonprofits across six continents. Since 2002, she has focused on educating girls in Afghanistan, where her team has built and supplied 10 new primary schools and assisted 12 others, serving some 20,000 children. She is also an activist with RESULTS, a grassroots citizen lobby creating the political will to end the worst aspects of poverty.