Julia Hicker

Julia joined Team Feniks in 2021, after a little bird told her about an opening. She is a Julia-of-all-trades with a strong talent for building relationships and a keen sense of client relations. She genuinely strives to connect with every person who walks through the door.  She was originally hired to fill a basic receptionist role, but has proven herself capable of running the office. Julia enjoys her continually expanding role and the autonomy which comes with increased responsibility. The culture of personal and professional development at the heart of Feniks & Company allows Julia to discover and design the path to fulfillment of her professional and personal potential.

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Julia was born in Alaska and raised in Wiseman, a tiny village nestled in the Brooks Range, the last stop for hundreds of miles along the pipeline road to Prudhoe Bay (Deadhorse).  She holds a Bachelor degree in English with a minor in German from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). While working on her degree, she studied abroad in 2017-2018 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

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Julia has long experience in service to others. She was a camp counselor at Wild Rose Summer Camp, worked as a host at Coldfoot Camp, helped make sure accommodations were top notch at Arctic Getaway Cabin and Breakfast (her family’s business), cashiered at Costco, planted and harvested at Bender Mountain Farm (a local organic farm), and participated in Arctic Hare Surveys for the National Park Service.  She supports the Alaska Blood Bank, where she has given a great deal (a pint every couple of months or so), and helps out at Calypso Farm from time to time.

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Julia’s chief passion is fiber arts.  She sews and knits her own and others’ clothes and takes classes to learn hand spinning and dying.  She also dabbles in ballroom dance.  She is an avid reader of the classics as well as light and heavy works of fiction and nonfiction, and she enjoys the Alaskan outdoors, especially the Brooks Range.

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Of the many books she’s read in the Feniks 15, The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor has a lingering effect.  “He changed my way of thinking.”  Why We Sleep by Dr. Matthew Walker and Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by journalist James Nestor affected her similarly.