Hi, I’m Julian

Category: Politics

  • Biases and Flaws in Occupational Licensing: A Barrier to Economic Mobility

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    For the last 10 years, my focus in academic studies, community involvement, and professional pursuits has centered on increasing access to economic opportunity. Affordable education programs, like those I developed at Coursera, are useful for unlocking new careers for historically underrepresented populations. Equally important is the identification and removal of regulations that create unnecessary barriers […]

  • SF’s Other Epidemic

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    As a society we’ve proven our ability to mobilize relatively effective measures to control/reduce Covid-19 deaths; we need to use the same level of urgency and public health investment to combat the Opioid Epidemic and its growing fatalities.

  • The Case for Youth Stimulus

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    (or, “the angst created by too much time debating politics with my parents”)

  • The Remarkable Utility of John Rawls

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    An overview of Rawls’ work and why its simplicity offers a powerful yet simple way to analyze the most critical questions we face today.

  • Is this the hour of reckoning for contingent labor?

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    Defining what it means to be a contingent worker – its benefits and risks – and why it’s time for the government to reevaluate how we think about employment altogether. 

  • The Predictable Pandemic

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    I recently re-discovered a letter I wrote to Kamala Harris in July of 2018 regarding the Trump administration’s failure to proactively prepare for an epidemic. I share this letter not because I think Trump could have stopped COVID-19 and definitely not because I wanted to be right, but because, by listening to experts like Anthony […]

  • Conclusions from Colorado

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    I recently spent two weeks volunteering for the Hillary campaign in Colorado. I spent the majority of my time knocking on doors (canvassing) in the 6th congressional district on behalf of the Colorado Democratic Party. When I wasn’t canvassing, I attended events or visited my friend in the campaign headquarters. Though the experience was a […]

  • [Senior Thesis] Just Housing: An Examination of Inequality in John Rawls’ Theory of Justice as Fairness

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    Date of Submission: April 2015 Readers: Alex Rajczi, Andrew Schroeder Department: Philosophy and Public Affairs Abstract How would a housing system work in a just society? How do we account for differences in opportunity according to one’s birthplace? These two questions, both a result of our recent housing crisis, can be addressed through inquiries into policy, economics, […]