The Julia Evans Reed Charitable Trust gathers the love, talent and treasure of those inspired by Julia’s celebration of life to help people in need.

The Julia Evans Reed Charitable Trust partners with outstanding non-profits to provide the things in life Julia held to be essential: a good home, a quality education, nourishing food, and creative opportunities for learning and engagement in the arts.

Julia Reed was born in 1960 in the Mississippi Delta and is the author of 8 books. In her long and storied career, she contributed to Newsweek, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, Elle Decor, Southern Living, and Garden & Gun, US News & World Report, among other publications.