Julia Hotz is a solutions-focused journalist and award-winning author of The Connection Cure, a book chronicling the science, stories, and spread of social prescribing. She helps other journalists report on evidence-backed ideas at the Solutions Journalism Network, where she runs their mental health fellowship programs and previously hosted an award-winning newscast on Google, “Tell Me Something Good.” Hotz has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Wired magazine, Scientific American, Bloomberg, and Time magazine. Her reporting has directly influenced public county health policy, inspired programming at the New York Fed, and was featured on the hit NBC series New Amsterdam. Hotz was also a Fulbright scholar.