Julia Berg

We miss Julia every day, but we continue to move forward.

• Hannah graduated from Southwest High School in 2011 and Ithaca College in 2015 with a BS in Cinema and Photography. During college she spent  a semesters in London, and backpacked through northern Europe. She taught English for a year in rural Thailand before settling in Burbank CA. She is the head technician at C.S.L.A., a boutique film camera and equipment rental business serving the film industry. She continues to travel globally.

• Welcome divides her time among her writing and travel. She is working on a memoir, currently called Without Julia, about her relationship with Julia, the experience of loss and trauma, and the need to carry on. She has led seven service/safari trips to Tanzania, leading groups of youth and adults. She has fostered a relationship with the community of and schools in Bassodawish, Karatu District. 

• Dan retired from The Minneapolis Foundation in 2016. He co-chaired a capital campaign for First Universalist Church in 2017, and remains committed to this community. He is actively involved in the patient safety movement, having served as chair of the Patient Engagement Committee of the national Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, and as a member of the Statewide Network of Patient/Family Partners for the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety.