Julia is the Director of INN Labs, the product and technology arm of the Institute for Nonprofit News. She leads a team of news technologists to develop software that supports and advances the work of nonprofit publishers. Julia came to INN from the Center for Investigative Reporting where she was a 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellow researching mobile data visualization, interactive storytelling, and news application design. Early in her career, Smith worked as a corporate software developer and user experience designer before an enthusiastic return to the news industry.