Juliana was born in Natal, Brazil, and moved to Orange County, California in her teenage years. She earned an A.A. at Cypress Community College and her B.A. in sociology with an emphasis in diversity and inequality from California State University, Los Angeles. At college, Juliana practiced student organizing around issues of accessibility, affordability, and quality of public higher education in California, especially for undocumented immigrant students. She went on to work with labor unions to help build coalition between students and workers. For the past three years, she has worked with the California Faculty Association as the Southern California internship program coordinator, strengthening the coalition between students and faculty and organizing on issues that directly affect CSU. At Princeton, Juliana will focus her MPP on domestic policy. She later plans to work in public service creating and advocating for policy in protection and service of immigrants as well as affordability to higher education for all.