
Bio
Julie Goodridge is the CEO and founder of Boston-based NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. For three decades, Julie has been a leader in socially responsible and sustainable investing, focusing on issues of race and gender, economic inequality, human rights, environmental justice, health, and safety, and corporate governance. Under Julie’s leadership, NorthStar has penned groundbreaking shareholder resolutions to expand shareholder voting rights, to adopt universal principles such as the human right to water, and to address equal employment opportunities and compensation inequities. In addition to her work at NorthStar, Julie made history when, as lead plaintiff, Goodridge vs. the Massachusetts Department of Public Health became the first court case to establish LGBT equal marriage rights in the United States.