Julia (Julie) Pile, is a member of the Kentucky Board of Education and the new member representative on NASBE’s board of directors.
A long-time family and parent engagement advocate, Pile has served in various volunteer and leadership positions with schools in northern Kentucky, including as local PTA president. She was a member of the Boone County Board of Education from January 2019 to December 2022 and served as the board’s chair in 2022.
She is a 2012 graduate of the Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership and a 2018 member of the inaugural EdTrust Fund Parent Fellowship class. In 2015, Pile co-founded ParentCamp and currently serves as the president. The organization’s model leans into capacity building and strengthening the family-school-community ecosystem and works with local teams to provide opportunities for relational trust to be built amongst stakeholders. ParentCamp also offers a national virtual training once a month so that parents, educators and community members from across the globe can connect, learn from each other and build a support system.