Rigor and warmth aren’t opposites.
The discipline that solves an equation is the same discipline that prepares you to walk into any room. One trains the other.
The mind of Julia Hatoum
One person,
two hemispheres.
Julia Hatoum is an engineer, a model, and an advocate — and she has never accepted that those have to be three different people. The analytical and the expressive are wired into the same mind, and the whole point is what happens when you stop choosing between them.
The story
She earned an honors chemical engineering degree and led a student body of more than twenty thousand — in the same four years.
At the University of Delaware, Julia graduated with an Honors B.S. in Chemical Engineering with Distinction, stacking minors in Chemistry, Materials Science Engineering, and Civil Engineering. In the lab she improved a patient-specific cardiovascular model built on more than eighty equations, and ran density functional theory simulations that became published, second-author research.
She did all of that while serving as Student Body President and SGA President, representing more than twenty thousand undergraduates, controlling the Allocations Board, and sitting on university committees. The Board of Trustees formally recognized her for it. None of it required her to be only an engineer or only a leader.
“The most interesting problems live where the disciplines overlap. I’d rather stand in that overlap than pick a side.”
Today she is an Engineer and Assistant Project Manager at Power Industry Experts, working across transmission, distribution, and substation projects, and she competes as Miss Delaware USA 2025 First Runner-Up on a platform for women in STEM. Systems and presence, running at once.
In frame
One person,
three rooms.
The lab, the stage, and the runway ask for different things. The preparation underneath them is the same.
The throughline
A single
trajectory.
Read top to bottom, the engineering and the advocacy aren’t two timelines. They are one.
- 2023
Elected Student Body & SGA President
Took office representing 20,000+ students, joining the Allocations Board as Controller and university committees as a student representative.
Leadership - 2024
Honors B.S., Chemical Engineering, with Distinction
Graduated with three minors, published graphene research, and an eighty-equation cardiovascular thesis — then was recognized by the Board of Trustees.
Engineering - 2024
Engineer & Assistant Project Manager
Joined Power Industry Experts and earned the CAPM credential, working across transmission, distribution, and substation delivery.
Career - 2025
Miss Delaware USA, First Runner-Up
Took the engineering story to a state stage, competing on a women-in-STEM platform built around visibility, confidence, and opportunity.
Advocacy
What she believes
Four working principles.
Visibility is a responsibility.
If you’re the engineer a young woman finally gets to see, you owe her clarity about how you got there.
The best systems include more people.
Technical work gets stronger, not softer, when the room holding the decisions looks less alike.
Preparation beats perfection.
Confidence isn’t a personality trait. It’s what’s left over after you’ve done the work.
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