Giuliana is a classically trained violist who has dedicated her career to the advancement of music education for today and tomorrow's diverse students. She currently works as the Director of Operations and Equity at Music Workshop, a Portland based non-profit in music education. She grew up in northern California and attended UC Berkeley for her undergraduate degree with honors in Music. After graduating she then taught elementary general music and orchestra for five years where she designed a curriculum for her students which helped them learn about music from around the world and across U.S. history. She returned to school in 2015 to better understand the intersections of music listening, global music, culture, identity, and equity in the public music classroom. 

Giuliana graduated in 2017 with her MA in music education from the University of Washington where she is completing her PhD in a few months. When she started at the UW as a graduate student she also joined the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) representing the School of Music as a Senator. She served two years as Senator after which she was elected Secretary of GPSS for a year, and then elected and re-elected President for two years. As President of GPSS Giuliana represented her more than 17,000 graduate and professional student colleagues. She worked regularly with university administrators, sat on 10+ campus boards and committees, advocated in Olympia and D.C. as a registered lobbyist, worked with campus partners and departments to best support grad students, and worked internally to stabilize and grow the organization as a representative body. During her final year of Presidency, she was also elected PV of Graduate and Professional Affairs for the Washington Students' Association wherein she represented all graduate students in the state of Washington. She has continued to advise GPSS and new Presidents since her departure in June 2020. She welcomes opportunities to speak about issues that face graduate students.