Hello from Ambassador Coordinator Julia!
Hi! I am Julia Kerpel. You know me as g4g’s Ambassador Coordinator. I’m also an international karate competitor, Zumba instructor, Mathlete, and drum major of my high school band!
Tell us how g4g inspired you!
Julia training at her karate dojo
g4g inspired me to share my passion for STEM with girls all over the world! Before COVID, I became one of the youngest licenced Zumba instructors in the USA. When Illinois schools shut down in March 2020, I turned my family’s unfinished basement into a fitness studio and began teaching free Zumba Kids classes online. To keep kids’ minds and bodies active, I added STEM crafts to the end of classes. I was appointed Ambassador Coordinator in February 2021 after becoming a g4g Ambassador in October 2020. I love working with g4g Ambassadors all over the world and helping them turn their ideas for projects into reality!
Tell us what you are currently working on!
I am currently in my senior year of high school, which means college is just a few short months away! I am waiting to hear back from university programmes and plan to study civil and structural engineering in the fall. I hope to encourage girls everywhere to keep their bodies and minds active, to pursue STEM, and to remember the g4g motto, which has become my personal mantra: Anything is possible!
Julia won two bronze and a silver medal at the Maccabiah Games this past summer
Julia on the drum major ladder at her high school’s American football game
Julia and the marching band at Northwestern High School Band Day
