Ward 7 Councillor Julie Wright

Committee and board appointments

• Advisory Committee on Culture
• Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area Board of Directors
• Waterloo Public Library Board

Biography

A resident of Ward 7, I am committed to championing climate action, affordable housing, a resilient Uptown, and engaging the city’s brain trust to solve the challenges we face. I make my home here with my husband and two children.

I am the former Director of Partners for Action, a research initiative at the University of Waterloo that focuses on flood risk and resilience. Previously, I led Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) – a non-profit partnership between the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute – through its start-up phase to successfully launching a decade-long Summit series and catalyzing collaborations related to each event. The series included Energy 2030 (2011), Learning 2030 (2013), OpenAccess Energy (2016), Generation SDG (2018) and Together|Ensemble (2020). Prior to working at WGSI, I spent ten years in communications and public affairs roles for companies, clients, and campaigns in the tech, cultural and non-profit sectors at the forefront of sector disruption. 

Over the past decade, I co-founded and co-chaired the Uptown North neighbourhood association, coordinated a long-running Walking School Bus for the Canadian Cancer Society, volunteered with a neighbourhood-based refugee resettlement group, volunteered for festivals and cultural events, and served on both the WRDSB’s Parent Involvement Committee and as a director at Emmanuel at Brighton Childcare Centre. I currently serve as a board member at Education Canada.

I am a voracious reader and am frequently hatching some sort of plan that involves growing something.