Meet Yulia

An award-winning travel journalist, photographer, writer, Telly-Award-winning filmmaker, speaker, educator, and creative consultant

Yulia is a 360 creator, equally skilled with words, images, and visual stories. She offers storytelling, creative consulting, and teaching services in writing, photography, video, social reels, and podcasts.

Yulia works with tourism destinations to bring places to life through rich cultural stories. She also creates paid content campaigns, including but not limited to social media, client content packages, podcast partnerships, and more.

Yulia is the host of the Going Places platform and a skilled creative instructor who has taught on stages ranging from National Geographic to Virginia Tourism (she’s once delivered a workshop from the Arctic Circle!).

Yulia’s assignments have taken her to ~100 countries, including Sierra Leone, the Arctic Circle, Botswana, Austria, China, & more

Award-Winning Stories

Yulia’s documentary, The Story of Abdul Raouf, won a Gold Telly Award in 2024, competing against 13,000 entries to join the ranks of winners like the creative powerhouses of Adobe, Netflix, National Geographic, LinkedIn, and others.

Telly Awards honors excellence in video and TV across all screens, wuth past winners including AirBnB, Conde Nast, NASA, and more.

Watch the 5-min film here

Yulia’s Expertise

editorial

Features for Conde Nast Traveler, NatGeo, TIME, and more, branded content for Thrillist, Outside, and more

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visual

Editorial & commercial photography and filmmaking in lifestyle, travel, & hospitality for NatGeo, Getty Images, and more

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speaking & Workshops

Speaking engagements & workshops for NatGeo, various tourism boards, and conferences

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going places

Hosting weekly travel podcast & newsletter with brand partnership opportunities

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Clients Include

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