Juliana Nocker Ferry (she/her) is Director of Partnership Development and Organizational Programs at Lumos Transforms. She oversees the cultivation and stewardship of Lumos’ strategic partnerships and systems-change initiatives across healthcare, higher education, arts and culture, philanthropy, government, and social services, helping organizations translate ambitious visions into durable, large-scale practice.. From 2021–2024, she served as Program Manager for the embodied, trauma-informed, resilience-oriented Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Antiracism (EDIA) Initiative for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second-largest safety net healthcare system in the United States. In this ambitious, multi-year project, Lumos engaged thousands of Health Services workforce members, patients, and community members in the creation of the agency’s first-ever EDIA strategic plan. Following adoption of the strategic plan, Juliana led the delivery of ongoing training, coaching, and technical assistance to support implementation across the enterprise.

Juliana has also overseen resilience-oriented workforce development and capacity-building initiatives for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and manages partnerships with organizations across the United States and United Kingdom. Her recent work includes helping to design and operationalize a capacity-building initiative for UK rights organizations supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation, as well as co-leading Lumos’ participation in the Wealth Hackers Initiative, an international collaboration exploring the embodied and relational capacities that support wealth stewardship, redistribution, and systems change.

Juliana’s relationship with Lumos Founder Nkem Ndefo spans more than twenty years. She played an integral role in building Nkem’s early midwifery and holistic healthcare practices before becoming Director of Operations for TRE Los Angeles, the trauma-healing and resilience-focused social enterprise that later evolved into Lumos Transforms. After 13 years of working closely with Nkem, Juliana entered the nonprofit world as Associate Director of Development at St. John’s Community Health, a network of community health centers based in South Los Angeles. There, her work centered on building partnerships and securing funding for programs that addressed the social determinants of health and racial, ethnic, and gender inequities, including those serving unaccompanied minors, people experiencing homelessness, families escaping intimate partner violence, and transgender folx. Juliana next became Director of Grants and Compliance at Peace Over Violence, a multicultural, feminist organization dedicated to creating communities free of sexual, domestic, and interpersonal violence. During her tenure, Juliana was responsible for institutional fundraising supporting 90% of the agency’s operating budget and helped secure funding for a wide range of violence intervention and prevention programs, including resilience-focused support groups for survivors of domestic violence, legal services for immigrant families, sexual violence prevention initiatives, and youth leadership development programs. Across philanthropy, healthcare, violence prevention, and organizational change, Juliana’s work has been consistently focused on building the relationships, operational systems, and partnerships that enable organizations and communities to address systemic inequities and foster health, wellbeing, and resilience.

Juliana is the proud mother of four home-birthed children and lives with her family in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. She is a classically trained chef and enjoys cooking, interior design, walking her dog in the hills, and reading.

At Lumos Transforms, Juliana provides:

• Program Management
• Partnership Development
• Strategic Planning
• Communications Support