PERSON: Julie Roginsky

Lift Our Voices

Co-Founder

Julie Roginsky (born April 25, 1973) is an American Democratic Party strategist, television personality and the founder of the non-profit Lift Our Voices, who has been credited with passing landmark federal civil rights legislation in the wake of the meToo movement. She was a contributor with the Fox News Channel where she was a frequent co-host on Outnumbered, and The Five. Prior to working at Fox News, she was a contributor at CNBC. Her columns have appeared in FoxNews.com, CNBC.com, Politico, Forbes, Ms. Magazine, and the Star-Ledger.

Roginsky was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Abram and Tanya Roginsky, who were Soviet dissidents of Jewish descent. She was primarily raised by her grandparents until she and her parents were allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1980. Her grandparents were prohibited from leaving the Soviet Union and became Refuseniks for over a decade until they, too, emigrated to the United States in 1990. Prior to settling in the United States, Roginsky and her family lived briefly in Vienna and Rome.

Roginsky was raised in New York City and Plainsboro Township, New Jersey. She graduated from Princeton Day School and was awarded both her B.A. and M.A. from Boston University. She received her undergraduate degree in political science magna cum laude and was a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Her graduate work focused on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its transition from a planned to a market economy.

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