Julia Naftulin is an editor on Business Insider's Special Projects team.
Previously, she held a five-year tenure as BI's sex and relationships reporter, covering topics like sexuality, psychology, and the intersection of relationships and entertainment. She was also BI's resident relationship advice columnist, penning the bi-weekly column Doing It Right.
Julia launched and formerly wrote BI's Dating App Clinic, where readers can submit their online dating profiles for tailored advice from dating industry professionals on how to improve them. (Submit yours for review here.)
She has spoken with a pastor who quit and became a stripper, a married woman who fell in love with an inmate at the prison where she worked, women who realized they were queer through watching TikTok videos, and a Wall Street accountant-turned-professional-girlfriend.
On a more personal note, Julia has written about her time aboard Goop's first cruise and how she healed after the end of a 10-year relationship.
Julia has also held roles as assistant editor at Health.com and commerce editor at Dotdash, where she focused on health, beauty, and wellness shopping content. Her work has also been published in Health magazine and on Time.com, ApartmentTherapy.com, TheKnot.com, and Bicycling.com.
She graduated from Syracuse University in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in magazine journalism. Julia lives in Philadelphia.
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