Julia Sanford is the founding principal of Starr Sanford Design Associates, a residential design and development firm based in Northeast Florida. She has designed for an extensive range of projects internationally including: feature film sets, resorts, office buildings, and retail centers. She was NBC’s art director for the Today Show and 1996 Centennial Olympic Broadcast. She has provided design and project management for historical renovations, showrooms, libraries, museums and private galleries. She is the Founding Director of the Sky Institute + Foundation for the Future, a non-profit organization dedicated to building sustainable communities with current projects in the United States, Australia, Bahamas, and Central America. Julia earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Master of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Her Master’s Thesis was tutored under Mack Scogin of Harvard University. She is fluent in French and Italian.
