Julianna Grandinetti
Program Coordinator of Mentorship
Julianna is the Program Coordinator of Mentorship on the Mentor Matching Engine
platform at the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC). Julianna brings
trauma-informed behavior guidance, social and emotional learning, and her
experience being from an immigrant family to the mentorship space. Prior to
joining ISTC, she was a research assistant and a youth librarian, and her biggest passion
is using community spaces to help families who have experienced hardships.
Julianna attended North Central College and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy
for her B.A. in Psychology and Neuroscience and completed her Master of Science in
Early Childhood Education specializing in social and emotional learning and
special education at the Erikson Institute.