Julie Lindahl holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Wellesley College, was a Fulbright scholar in Germany and holds a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from Oxford University. During her research she was named Honorary Research Associate of University College London in connection with its ongoing work on reverberations of war in Germany and Europe since 1945. She is also a recipient of the Stevens Traveling Fellowship 2015–2016 from Wellesley College which has generously agreed to support her ongoing research work.

Julie is the founder of Stories for Society, a non-profit which works with storytelling for social transformation. She lives in Sweden with her husband and twins.