Community Member

Julie Kowitz Margolies

Biography

Julie and her family have been BJ members since 2006. She has served as chair of the Board’s Family Life and Learning Committee and as co-chair of the Race & Us Committee and the Community DEI Committee, served for many years on the Kadima Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Community Engagement Committee. Julie is an attorney and principal of Kowitz Margolies Mediation LLC, with a dispute resolution practice focusing on employment and civil rights disputes. Prior to becoming a full-time neutral, Julie was the Director of the Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of New York. She currently serves as the Vice President of the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union. She holds a BA from Columbia and a JD summa cum laude from Brooklyn Law School. Julie and her husband, Alex, live on the Upper West Side with their three children, Leo, Truman, and Imogen.