Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Dr Julia Storberg

Department Chair of HOL; Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning

Sociology, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration

Julia Storberg-Walker is Chair of the Human and Organizational Learning Department, Program Director of the Organizational Leadership and Learning Program, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Learning at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. After serving in various leadership capacities at Deloitte & Touche and Deloitte Consulting (1985-1999), she shifted to the non-profit sector and received her PhD in Work, Community, and Family Education from the University of Minnesota in 2004. She has been recognized for her critically informed teaching, research, and activism/service as the recipient of multiple awards including the R. Wayne Pace Book of the Year Award by the Academy of Human Resource Development (2019), the Laura Bierema Critical HRD Award (also from the Academy of Human Resource Development) in 2017; and the Outstanding Research Award from the International Leadership Association (2015). Currently, Julia’s activist/scholar work is generative and aims to develop equitable and compassionate frameworks, models, and processes to catalyze the whole planet's interdependence and flourishing. This work is transdisciplinary and grounded in contemporary philosophical perspectives including posthumanism, new materialism, quantum field theory, and wisdom traditions spanning diverse cultures and historical moments.

Julia Storberg-Walker, PhD., CHTP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Learning, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, at The George Washington University (GW). As a researcher, Julia incorporates a variety of critically informed and action-oriented inquiry strategies in her work. She is an activist scholar engaged in research for justice and peace, and focuses on helping people see and understand how power--for example, as embodied in Whiteness--shapes and controls what society values, expects, and takes for granted. Prior to coming to GW, Julia was inducted into North Carolina State University’s Academy of Outstanding Faculty in Extension and Engagement. She has conducted action-oriented research and development in the United States, Jamaica, Belize, and India.