Julia Helminiak

Program Manager

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Julia is based at the CSU Fort Collins campus. She joined the team to support CSU Fort Collins Education Abroad programs at the CSU Todos Santos Center. She loves seeing the programs she works on with faculty and staff leaders come to life in country.

She worked in Education Abroad from 2006 to 2015 and returned to the field in 2024. She worked as a Spanish teacher in Loveland, Colorado in the interim. She has also taught English in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. She studied abroad during her undergraduate and graduate programs in Spain. She has a B.S. from the University of Dayton in Psychology and Spanish and a M.A. from Saint Louis University in Spanish.

She is originally from Wisconsin but has called Colorado home since 2010. She loves incorporating Spanish language into her work and home life. She lives in Fort Collins with her two sons and husband.