Name

Julie Aberg Robison

Street Address

112 Brant Point Place, Cary, NC 27513
NOTE: All mail for Town-related business should be sent to the mailing address below

District

At-Large

Mailing Address

c/o Town of Cary, P.O. Box 8005, Cary, NC 27512-8005

Phone

(919) 621-9509

Fax

(919) 460-4910

E-mail

julie.robison@townofcary.org

Place of Birth

Madison, Wisconsin

Date of Birth

1958

Other placed (cities) lived

Wisconsin: Portage, Viroqua, Whitehall, Beaver Dam, Waupun, Fond du Lac; Minnesota: Minneapolis, Saint Paul; Virginia: Springfield, Chincoteague Island; North Carolina: Durham, Morrisville, Cary; New York: DeWitt (suburban Syracuse); England: London (Earl's Court); West and Central Africa: Yaoundé, Cameroon; Dakar, Senegal; Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Number of Years as Cary Resident

Since 1997

Number of terms served on Town Council (including current)

First term: 2001-2005
Second term: 2005-2009
Third term: 2009-2013

Expiration Date of current term

December 2013

Other political offices and/or appointments held, now or in the past

Research Triangle Regional Transportation Authority (Triangle Transit) Board of Trustees; National League of Cities. Board of Directors; National League of Cities. Advisory Council; Town of Cary Economic Policy Commission; Co-Chair, Regional Mayors and County Commission Chairs Joint Group; Chair, Regional Mayor's Group, Mayor's Delegate; Chair, Mayor's Group; Triangle J Council of Governments for Wake, Durham, and Orange Counties; Chair, Water Resources Advisory Board, Triangle J Council of Governments

See also other local, regional, state, and national appointments.

Number of years in current job or current line of work

Since 1989 with RTI, International in the International Development Group (Centers for Democratic Governance, Urban Finance & Management, Urban Regional Finance & Management, and Office of International Programs)

Since 1986 in the field of international development

International Country Work Experience

Benin, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, England, Egypt, France, Guinea, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, Uganda (1989-2009)

Other occupations or previous employers of interest

RTI International, Research Triangle Park, N. Carolina: Senior Public Administration Specialist; Public Administration Specialist; Municipal Management Training Coordinator; Project Director, Municipal Development Support Program, field assignment in Côte d’Ivoire; Urban Planning Research Analyst; Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York: Finance Consultant, Executive Education, Maxwell School of Citizen & Public Affairs; U.S. Agency for International Development, Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire; Urban Development Researcher, Housing & Urban Development Office; United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo, Program Coordinator; U.S. Agency for International Development, Dakar, Senegal, Contract Financial Analyst, Regional Controller for West/Central Africa; U.S. Agency for International Development, Dakar, Senegal, Audit Report Editor / Administrator, Regional Inspector General for Audit; Environment and Development Action-Third World, Dakar, Senegal, Development Research Intern; University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assistant to Director, International Study and Travel Center.

See also pre-college jobs.

Highest grade completed

Post Graduate

Degree(s) obtained

BA, MS

School(s) attended

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (BA); University of Wisconsin, Madison (MS); Harvard University; Kennedy School of Government; Harvard Graduate School of Design (Executive Education); Villanova University (Lean Six Sigma Black Belt-LSSBB)

Primary areas of study

Graduate: Urban and Regional Planning, Master's Thesis "The Impact of Infrastructure Investments on Municipal Revenue Generation in Five Secondary Cities in Côte d'Ivoire."; Undergraduate: Communications Major, Foreign Studies Minor

Professional licenses, certifications

Certificate, Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government, Kennedy School, Harvard University and the Joint Program for Housing Studies at Harvard Graduate School of Design; Certificate of Achievement: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB), Villanova University; Leadership Training Institute, National League of Cities; Certificate in Project Management: Shipley Business Associated; Certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI); Certificates in Business Proposal Development, Capture Planning, Technical Proposal Writing and Management, and Writing Executive Summaries; Shipley Business Associates.

Marital Status

Married to Daniel J. Robison

Number of children

2

Number of school age children

2

Church, religious denomination

Beth Shalom Synagogue

Current Civic Club and Association Membership(s)

Leadership Triangle Alumni Association; Mentor for College Edition Leadership Triangle; Cary Woman's Club; Cary Sister Cities Association; Club Red Volleyball; The Nature Conservancy; University of Minnesota Alumni Association's Mentor Connection; University of Wisconsin Alumni Association; Triangle Chapter: Mentoring Program, Scholarship Committee National Center for Public Productivity

Community Organizations Past Board Memberships

Friends of the Page-Walker: Board of Directors, Historic Preservation Committee; The Raleigh School for Children, Development Capital Campaign; PTA Board of Directors of Fuller GT Magnet Elementary School, Raleigh, North Carolina; Cultural Arts Committee Chair; Primrose Preschool of Cary. Chair, Parent Advisory Council; Weston Pointe Homeowners' Association. Board Member

Current Professional Association Membership(s)

American Planning Association (APA); NC Chapter of the APA; American Society of Public Administration; American Society for Training and Development; The National Trust for Historic Preservation; Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

Charitable Work – Current and past

The Carying Place (Transitional Housing & Life Skills for Homeless Families); Advisory Council & Volunteer; Board of Directors; Art Auction Honorary Committee; Art Auction Honorary Chair; National Charity League, Member; Ending Homelessness: A Ten-Year Action Plan for Wake County. Public Forum and Leadership Meeting Facilitator; United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, one year of Mission Service in Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).

Current Party Affiliation

Democrat