Juliana Nocker Ferry

Juliana Nocker Ferry (she/her) is Director of Partnership Development & Organizational Programs at Lumos Transforms, a Los Angeles-based social enterprise dedicated to stewarding individuals, communities, and organizations through positive change. She oversees Lumos programs across sectors, including healthcare, higher education, arts and culture, philanthropy, and social services, and specializes in directly managing complex systems-change projects. For the past three years, she worked on a groundbreaking embodied, trauma-informed, resilience-oriented Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Antiracism (EDIA) Initiative for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second-largest safety net healthcare system in the United States.

Prior to her current role at Lumos, Juliana was Associate Director of Institutional Giving at St. John’s Community Health, a $100 million network of community health centers based in South Los Angeles. There, her work centered on building partnerships and funding for programs that addressed the social determinants of health and racial, ethnic, and gender inequities, including those for unaccompanied minors, people experiencing homelessness, families escaping intimate partner violence, and transgender folx. Juliana was also Director of Grant Fundraising for Peace Over Violence, a 50-year-old multicultural feminist organization dedicated to creating communities free of sexual, domestic, and interpersonal violence. In her time at Peace Over Violence, Juliana was responsible for raising 90% of the agency’s $5.5 million annual operating budget, and she supported a wide range of violence intervention and prevention programming, including Still I Rise, a resilience-focused sister circle group by and for Black survivors of domestic violence; legal services for immigrant families; sexual violence prevention programs for male allies; and the Youth Over Violence leadership institute. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Juliana’s diverse professional resume has been united by curiosity and a deep desire to address systemic inequities and foster true health and wellbeing for individuals, families, and communities.