Julia A. Whitehead

Julia A. Whitehead, an award-winning entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis and the business and editorial consulting firm, Random Harvest Group. Whitehead is a recognized expert and lecturer on the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Biography.com, So It Goes, and Finding the Words: Stories and Poems by Women Veterans. She has held writing and editing positions with Random House, Inc., Military Officers Association of America, and the state legislatures of South Carolina and Indiana. Whitehead taught English to 100 2nd graders in Thailand in 2000 and worked as a medical writer for Eli Lilly and Co. In this capacity, Whitehead also represented Lilly as an adjunct professor of Medical Writing and Editing at Florida A&M University. Whitehead holds a Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of South Carolina and a Master's Degree in International Relations from University of Indianapolis. She is a member of the Indianapolis Consortium of Arts Administrators and the Affiliate Steering Committee for Chicago’s American Writers Museum. Whitehead led the creation of the So It Goes Literary Journal, the inclusion of the Vonnegut Library as an official national location of Literary Landmarks of the American Library Association, and the development of the Vonnegut Youth Writing Program serving Indianapolis youth in partnership with Dave Eggers' International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers. She served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. A documentary film she wrote, produced, and directed titled “My Friend Mickey” was featured in the 2018 Heartland Film Festival and the 2021 FlickFest and was a finalist for best documentary in the Los Angeles Love International Film Festival. She is the proud mother of sons Daniel and Joseph and a member of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck.