Please introduce yourself.

My name is Julia Lima Rosengren, I live in East Texas where I moved from Europe 6 years ago.

It has been an exceptionally long journey from the tiny, northern Brazilian town of Timbuaba to the great cities of the world following 

my dreams and working as a model. Ours was a very simple and poor family, but with plenty of love. My father always dreamed the best for us. 

I am the third of five children and right in the middle of two boys and two girls. As far back as I can remember, I always dreamed 

extremely big and felt, even though I was not the eldest, that I had the most responsibility to look after us all. 

Each day it was me that walked the two miles to town to get the two largest jugs of fresh water that I could carry in my hands.

I wasn't very old when I realized that to make a better future for our family I could not stay in that little town. There were probably 

many boys and girls there, and the thousands of other towns like it, that harbored similar dreams.

For me though, it was always much, much more than a mere dream. Such ambitions were hardly encouraged there. In school, 

I was curious about everything, One day, as we looked at a map, I asked the teacher where Japan was. 

The teacher replied that it did not matter because I would never be able to go there.

At fifteen, my father, who knew I had to leave, gave me permission to move to the big city of Sao Paulo where I became a model 

and from there, I had my opportunity to come to America (Miami). Swimming in the extremely competitive modeling waters of Miami, 

I decided that although I may not be the greatest model in the world, no one was going to work harder. 

Others noticed and I began to get work with many different agencies. Soon trips to Europe and then Japan followed. 

I could not resist the urge to send my old teacher a postcard from Japan (Tokyo).

It all cemented my conviction that you should never allow anyone else to set your limits or expectations My career continued to expand, 

and I caught the eye of the movie world. I moved to Los Angeles and I appeared as Teri Hatcher’s body-double in the

TNT movie of the week ‘Running Mates' and that led to the same role for Kate Beckinsale in the blockbuster, 'Pearl Harbor'.

From there, I became the international spokesmodel for a Top Shelf vodka, 'Brilliant'. Based in Las Vegas, it was all a great deal 

further than the mere distance from my hometown but I was able to provide for my family in a way that made me very happy.

For me it was still not enough. I had to keep learning, keep experiencing. I walked away from the glitz and neon glamor of my life 

in Vegas and immersed myself in the glorious beauty of Tuscany, Italy.

There can scarcely be a starker contrast of lifestyle, but I wanted to not just visit countries now but become part of them 

and have them become part of me. I felt that language was the most obvious way to show that and I found I had

an affinity for them, becoming fluent in Italian in less than a year. It was a glorious time and place.

My old life was not to be so easily left behind though. An offer came in to take a class hosting a season of a television talk show in London. 

It was an opportunity I felt could not be turned down, even if it presented no obvious new language challenges

At the conclusion of the show in London, I moved to Paris and took a job as Fashion Consultant for Galleries Lafayette, 

the celebrated Department Store chain. The job was not so thrilling but Paris certainly was, and I even found

time to enroll in Master Chef classes, which I loved. It was at this point that I found myself needing to help more people than just my family. 

I started to get deeply involved with what would become the driving force in my life: Philanthropy.

I started a few years earlier by running half marathons for charitable sponsorship or donations but then began to become 

more interested in where the money was going and what actual help was needed.

I began to raise money for causes on my own, almost always benefiting under- privileged children. My new interests took me back 

to the United States, to Texas, where I met and married my husband. The love of languages persisted. My husband had good

connections at the University of Central Florida, which had a Modern Languages department. I decided to get involved and first joined as a student,

studying Russian, and then endowed the department with a scholarship for deserving students. 

I became the standard bearer for all the University languages. I now speak and write my native of Portuguese, and English, Spanish, Italian, French,

Catalan, Danish and basic in Japanese and Russian. I was blessed to receive the University of Central Florida Honorary Alumni Award in 2019.

I now oversee more than a dozen major philanthropic projects, including one particularly close to my heart. 

I am a founder-member of a Brazilian team of activists and artists that have formed UNIAO GAIA, a collective that

concentrates on issues affecting the planet. I am also an ambassador for a global company based in Europe, the ‘SUSTAINABLE FILM FUND’ which

raises awareness of what must be done to help make life on this planet sustainable. My goal with the short films is to support 

the love of Mother Earth through the building of friendships and shared awareness. I am also an Actress on the

short film ‘BEFORE SUNRISE’ that was made during the quarantine, filmed entirely on an I-phone at my home in Texas 

and directed remotely, via phone, from Brazil. I played all five characters of the film. Another of my favorite Non-Profits is MoviesMakingADifference Inc. a 501c3 that makes feature films to highlight social issues and give back to the

communities profiled in them. When a powerful Mexican cartel leader was needed for a film about trafficking, I happily accepted the part. 

Maybe villains are always more fun to play! The film, 'Cult Cartel', is presently in post-production. As to what comes next, anything is possible. 

It continues to be an amazing life’s journey.