Julie White is the former long-time Director of the CAW-Unifor Women’s Department. She held many leadership positions in her local union including becoming the first woman president of CAW Local 27. She was elected to the union’s National Executive Board and was later appointed Director of the CAW Women’s Department. In this role, White was responsible for the union’s equity campaigns, education, mobilization, and workplace advocacy. She advocated for reproductive rights, childcare, the need for gun control legislation, and other measures to end gender-based violence. She lives in London, Ontario.