Julia (Eisen-Meyers) Ford ’07 is the development director at St. Andrew Nativity School, Portland’s only tuition-free private school exclusively serving low income students and their families. Nativity School serves 87 middle schoolers, and 248 alumni in high school, college and the working world. The school is 100 percent dependent on private and corporate donations in order to provide wraparound educational services.

Julia also does catering and wedding/personal event management for private entities through sole-proprietorship of Cocoa N’ Lola, LLC. She has a strong background in French pastry with more than three years of experience as the lead pastry chef for both retail and wholesale operations.