In 2022, Julie returned to her home state of California. In May, she started as the new Director of Special Collections and College Archives at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She also co-presented a webinar, "Disrupting Assumptions: Forging Interdisciplinary Archival Engagement," with Claudia Willett (Processing Archivist, Stanford University) for the Society of California Archivists and co-authored a poster presentation, "Do What You Can with What You Have: A Rebuttal to 'Do More with Less'," for the 2022 Society of American Archivists Conference.