Julia Grant is a second-year master of city and metropolitan planning student at the University of Utah, focusing on advancing housing affordability. She graduated with a bachelor’s in urban ecology from the University of Utah. As a senior associate at Ivory Innovations, she supports the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability through research, diligence, and communication with innovators nationwide. Additionally, she is the first two-time champion of Hack-A-House, a housing innovation competition in which students have 24 hours to create and pitch a concept to improve housing affordability.