Julia Heinzel

Julia was born and raised in Pennington, New Jersey, and is excited to be returning to her beloved home state. In 2019, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics and since then worked at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in the Labor, Income Security, and Long‐Term Analysis Division. At CBO, she worked on estimating the labor market effects of a proposed policy to raise the minimum wage and modeling the economic effects of immigration. After Princeton, she hopes to pursue a law degree and use her quantitative background to enact criminal justice reform. This summer, she had the opportunity to intern at the ACLU's National Policy Advocacy Division on the Justice Team. There, she worked on researching and drafting legislative proposals, developed policy options, and conducted a cost-benefit analysis on a piece of proposed legislation.