Juleanna Glover

Many of FREOPP’s team photos were taken inside of Juleanna Glover’s house. There’s a reason for that.

In 1997, Juleanna started inviting some of her young D.C. friends over to her two bedroom apartment for informal gatherings. In the ensuing two decades, her homes have welcomed nearly every influential policymaker in the country, and her events are a regular source of material for Politico’s Playbook. Washingtonian, among other publications, has named her one of the city’s most powerful women. “I know that this sounds ridiculous,” she once told the New York Times, “but this is all generated from not wanting to go out and have someone else put my children to bed.”

Juleanna is a member of FREOPP’s Board of Advisors, where she helps make sure that our ideas are widely circulated—and not just with the D.C. doyens who drop by her home. She also served on FREOPP’s first Board of Directors.

Juleanna has worked in the White House and has advised a diverse range of notable policymakers, including Steve Forbes, Rudy Giuliani, John Ashcroft, and John McCain. Today, she is founder and CEO of Ridgely Walsh, a public and governmental affairs agency that advises some of the most important technology companies in the world, including Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Google, Oracle, eBay, Netflix, Oracle, Microsoft, and Snapchat.

It must be noted, however, that one of Juleanna’s most famous clients—Elon Musk—doesn’t always take her advice:

Juleanna’s public policy career includes experience in foreign affairs. She has a master’s in Public Administration from George Mason, where she focused on international economics; and studied at Johns Hopkins’ Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

“Public policy thought leadership is at an inflection point,” says Juleanna, “due in equal parts to generational change and philosophical shifts. New technologies are displacing the American workforce, and our leaders are woefully unprepared as to how to educate and train the workforce of the future. FREOPP will be on the front line of formulating policies to meet these challenges.”

Juleanna and her partner, Christopher Reiter, work in Washington, D.C. and live in the D.C. area with their four children.