Julie Urbanik

Kansas City, Missouri Area United States

Executive Director

Julie holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University and is an award-winning author and teacher. Described as an “innovative and eclectic thinker,” she explores the intersection of geography, writing, and geonarrative visual media. Her academic research has focused on the politics of nature-society interactions – especially human-animal relations. Her first book is Placing Animals: An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations. She is the Executive Director of Mustela Vision Productions, a 501(c)3 non-profit. In this capacity she works to advance geographic literacy in all sectors of society by creating innovative digital media products such as interactive rep...