Julie Gray
Writer, Educator, Speaker, Creative Strategist
California native Julie Gray has lived in Israel since 2012. Gidon Lev is her life partner.
​Julie's path has been a bit unusual: from Hollywood script consulting to co-authoring The True Adventures of Gidon Lev, to building a viral social media account about Holocaust education that reached millions. She is the force behind a viral social media account with 9 million likes and 500,000 followers, featuring a unique blend of Jewish education, advocacy, and digital storytelling.
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That work led to press, a book deal, and collaborations with innovators like Luc Bernard, creator of Fortnite’s Voices of the Forgotten.
When the stakes are high, meaningful digital engagement matters—and Julie learned what works (and what doesn’t).
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She has spoken and taught storytelling, media literacy and social media impact at Yad Vashem, The European Jewish Union, Warner Bros., CalArts, The London Screenwriters’ Festival, and universities in the U.S., U.K., Ecuador, and Israel.
Julie has also volunteered with The Middle East Peace Initiative, Amnesty International, and the Afghan Women’s Writing Project—always seeking out stories that need to be told and voices that need to be heard.
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Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, The Times of Israel, The NY Post, Moment Magazine, and other publications. Gray produced a limited podcast series as a companion to The True Adventures and is co-producer of the upcoming documentary Follow Me.
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Julie is is represented by Richard Pike at C&W in London.
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Julie has spoken and taught around the world -
​from Warner Bros. Studios to Yad Vashem, from academic conferences to classrooms in Berlin. She teaches about the power of storytelling, Holocaust remembrance, and digital media literacy in the attention economy. ​​
Read Julie's Work
This Israeli-American Life explores daily life in Northern Israel with humor, insight, and heart - and recently reached Substack’s Literature leaderboard. It's where Julie practices soft advocacy by detailing and humanizing Israeli life as she experiences it.
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"A book by Gidon Lev and Julie Gray is cause for celebration. Few contemporary writers offer us a vision of hope more compelling than this extraordinary duo."
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-Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, author of the New York Times bestseller, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.”
"In this elegantly conceived memoir...is a remarkable tale of survival and unexpected kinship. A vitally important Holocaust story eruditely captured."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)