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Author, Speaker, Founder & CEO

Julianna Glasse is a former Christian pop star turned founder and CEO of This Is What Happens When Women Read, a global foundation for women's liberation through education and community, located in New York City. She is an alumna of Oxford's Saïd Business School and partnered with the school to fund scholarships that give women the means to build independent, self-directed futures.

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This Is What Happens When Women Read

A memoir about women’s liberation through education. Julianna Glasse spent years inside a repressive religious world that restricted women's autonomy. This is the account of how reading broke that, and what it cost to walk out.

Published by Spiegel and Grau US and Bloomsbury UK and Worldwide.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR UPCOMING MEMOIR, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WOMEN READ

“In telling her story, Julianna Glasse blazes a trail for every woman who has ever felt oppressed by religion and the patriarchy and muted by other people’s rules and judgment. This is a page-turning, sexy, and eye-popping memoir of liberation. I couldn’t put it down.”


—Chelsea Handler

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“A meaningful and powerful life will be marked by learning.”

—Julianna Glasse