Julia Allen Field, American futurist, strategist, environmentalist.
Background
Field, Julia Rand Allen (Julie) was the daughter of Howard Locke Allen and Julia Wright Allen. BA cum laude, Harvard University 1960, Harvard Graduate School Design, 1964-1965.
Julie began her career at Benson's Wild Animal Farm in N.H., and became a lion trainer - one of three women lion trainers in the world at the time. She studied with Mabel Stark, a famous female tiger trainer, in Thousand Oaks, CA. She moved to Miami to become the Director of the Crandon Park Zoo and performed her lion act every Sunday. In 1952, she married the late, noted anthropologist/archaeologist, Henry Field, of Chicago's Field family They lived in Coconut Grove, FL and had one daughter, Juliana Lathrop Field who lives in Ashland, MA. Juliana's profile is on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianafield/
For many years, Julie worked as an environmental planner to protect the Colombian Amazon River and forest. Inspired the establishment of Amacayacu National Park, Amazonia, Colombia, 1975.
Co-creator, builder Villa Ciencia, Rio Cotuhe, Colombia, 1975
Her "Amazonia 2000" collection along with her personal papers from her years in Leticia and La Manigua in Colombia are in the Special Collections of Harvard's Loeb Library. Papers related to her work at Coconut Grove's Black Grove as Founder and Vice President of Black Grove Community Development Center: The Foundation for New Frontiers in Environmental Realization, Human Community and Social Justice.
Education
Bachelor Art History, Harvard University, cum laude, 1960.
Postgraduate, Harvard Graduate School Design, 1965.
Pius XII Graduate Art Institute, Florence, Italy, 1961—1962.
Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Fellow, Walden University Institute Advisory Studies, 1989.
Career
With Joint Harvard-Karachi University Expedition to Baluchistan, Pakistan, 1957,with Henry Field, Survey Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Zoos for International Union for Conservation of Nature, Morges, Switzerland, 1964. Consultant Walter Gropius for Baghdad Project, 1960, Sasaki, Dawson & Demay, Architects for St. Louis Zoo and National Zoo, Washington, District of Columbia, 1964—1965. Amazon Wildlife report for Nature editor Life Magazine, 1968.
Consultant Forestry Department of Simla, India, 1969—1970. Founder, Vice President Black Grove, Inc., Miami, Florida, 1970-1980. Founder, President Amazonia 2000, Bogota, Colombia, 1970—1979.
Leader Task Force Amazonia 2000, DAINCO, 1977-1978. Elected president New Foundation Amazonia 2000 in General Assembly, Leticia, Colombia, since 1979, Founder and President, Academy of the Arts and Sciences of the Americas, Miami, Florida. Advisory Techno-Update Journal, New Delhi, 1969-1970.
Member Presidential Committee on Innovative Technology Development Group of Year 2000, Colombia, 1971-1974. Member survey The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Zoos for International Union for Conservation of Nature, Morges, Switzerland, 1964. Advisor Techno-Update Journal, Simla, 1969-1970.
Man and biosphere committee United Nations Educational, Colombia, 1972-1978. Member Task Force on Colonization Report to President of Colombia, 1973. Honorary National Inspector resources and environment Republic of Colombia, since 1982.
Board of Visitors Duke University Primate Center, 1979-1982. Keynote speaker World Jungle Conference, University of Science Center Penang, Malaysia, December 1979, HSUS National Leadership Conference Wildlife Exploitation, Saddlebrook, New Jersey, 1968, II symposium and forum tropical biology, Leticia, Amazonas, Republic of Colombia, 1969. Participant Only One Earth Forum, United Nations Environmental Programme, Rene Dubos Center, New York City, 1987, International Seminar on the Economic Cooperative Future Amazon Basin, Leticia, 1970.
Consultant, speaker, lecturer in field.
Membership
Member City of Miami Bicentennial Committee, 1975-1976.
Coordinator Community of Man Task Force, Miami, 1975-1976.
Member Blueprint for Miami 2000, 1982-1985.
Lifetime Fellow Royal Geography Society, London.
Member International Hydrogen Energy Association, EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund, The Nature Conservancy, Friends of Earth, Friends of Worldwatch, National Resources Defense Council.