Julia F. Weber, Esq., MSW, is a Senior Policy Advisor collaborating with Masa Group. Julia has spent her career developing innovative approaches to solving complex issues facing families, children, and communities. She consults, serves as an expert witness, and regularly speaks and trains on domestic violence, firearms violence prevention policies, child custody, and implementation of promising practices around violence prevention and family law.

Most recently, she served as the director of the National Center on Gun Violence in Relationships; immediately prior to that, she spent four years with Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence where she became the first Implementation Director, focusing on extreme risk protection order policies and related firearms violence prevention issues, drafting and advocating for model legislation nationally, and training judges, attorneys, mental health practitioners, and victim advocates.

In 2021-22 Julia led Giffords’ effort to enact SB 320, a comprehensive approach to civil firearms relinquishment in domestic violence matters, and successfully advocated for $40 million in state funding for implementation. From 1999-2017, Julia worked with the Judicial Council of California, the policymaking body for the largest court system in the US, as a supervising attorney with the Center for Families, Children & the Courts. She staffed family law, domestic violence, and access to justice projects including developing rules of court, judicial and court staff trainings, and key court procedures focused on improving court administration statewide. Julia began her career in St. Louis County Family Court as a Domestic Relations Services social worker mediating child custody cases, and later opened a private practice representing children, providing mediation services, and consulting on domestic violence policies.

Much of her recent work focuses on the intersection of domestic violence and firearms, with a heavy emphasis on the role family law professionals can play in reducing risk.  Julia is an adjunct professor teaching domestic violence law each fall at Golden Gate University School of Law; she previously taught courses on race, gender, and law at Washington University in St. Louis where she obtained her undergraduate and law and social work degrees. She is a mediator and a member of the California Bar.