City & State New York
October 17, 2016
Julian Kline SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, BOLTON-ST. JOHNS Birthday: 7/30
Where did you go to college? College for Creative Studies in Detroit
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HEN JULIAN KLINE left his job doing community development work at t he Meatpack i ng Di st rict Improvement Association, he found a new position thanks to a colleague. The association’s executive director had been Anne Washburn, who is married to Emily Giske, a partner at Bolton-St. Johns. “I think Emily thought that I have a good personality for this type of work,” Kline says. For a time, Kline’s new position with the major lobbying firm took him up to Albany on a regular basis. But about a year ago, the New York City native shifted focus to the five boroughs. One area of emphasis for Kline and Bolton-St. Johns is working with nonprofits in the LGBT and HIV/ AIDS-related fields. In recent years, they have helped secure funding, rewrite regulations and coordinate with agencies, and have taken other steps to get better treatment to New Yorkers who have HIV/AIDS or are at risk of contracting the illness. “In both New York City and New York state there is a goal to basically end the AIDS epidemic by 2020, so we’ve been working to help advance that goal,” says Kline, who also specializes in the tech sector. Indeed, those are just two of many issues Kline works on. “We work with over a hundred clients,” he says, “so we work at any moment on numerous issues that are important and affect people’s lives, whether it’s providing services, homeless service and shelters, or a company’s survival in the marketplace.”
If you didn’t work in politics/ government, what would you do? Product design, which was my college major.
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