Julie H. Parker

JULIE HOWARD PARKER, a resident of Altadena with her husband Peter for 59 years, has always prioritized stable family relationships and rearing their children. She found time nevertheless to teach French, serve as arts editor and journalist for a local newspaper and teach yoga for forty years. The author earned a master’s degree in family therapy later in life, creating a ten-year state-funded program, Teen Futures, that helped hundreds of public high school students with their relationships. The couple spends winters in Altadena near their daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren, and summers in rural Vermont stewarding their family forest. Both are alumni of Middlebury College; Julie spent a student year in France taking courses at the Sorbonne and Institut de Phonétique.