Julianne Hill is an award-winning writer, reporter and strategic content producer with experience in print, video, audio and virtual events available to help you tell your true stories. She is known for telling memorable stories that inspire action.

Her journalistic work has appeared in outlets including NPR’s “This American Life” and “Morning Edition,” PBS, The History Channel, Real Simple, ABA Journal, Triquarterly Online and Writer’s Digest.  Her work in strategic content has focused on educational and non-profit institutions, including promotional pieces for Northwestern University, Northwestern Medicine, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Foundation.

Hill’s stories often focus on health. She served as a Rosalynn Carter Fellow, awarded to journalists covering mental health, and as a National Press Foundation Fellow, given for work focusing on HIV-AIDS. She also worked as a team member earning the George Foster Peabody Award for PBS science show “The New Explorers.”

Her in-depth investigation into New Hampshire’s policy of sending mental health patients who have committed no crimes to the state prison prompted the governor to change the state budget to build a new hospital. The story earned Hill her fourth prestigious Peter Lisagor Award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Chicago Headline Club.

She also writes essays. Her “This American Life” piece “One Brain Shrinks, One Brain Grows” looks at a young boy’s struggle with his father’s degenerative brain disease. Her essay film “So, Mary?” screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival and others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Hill studied journalism at Ohio University and received a Master’s in Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from Northwestern University.  In 2017, she returned to Ohio University as Scripps Visiting Professional, helping to launch a new MFA program in Communications Media Arts. She also has taught at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Loyola University Chicago and the University of Chicago.