Julia Ramirez

Julia Ramirez has spent over a decade thinking carefully about what it actually means to give someone the right gift. Based in Chicago and writing for GiftScores, she covers Relationship-Based Gifts and Family Gifts — territory she knows intimately from 12-plus years of private consulting, editorial work, and a gift column that reached families across the Midwest. Her background in Family and Consumer Sciences from Purdue, paired with AICI certification, shaped a gift-selection framework now used by Chicago-area family therapists working with blended and estranged families. She's consulted on holiday gifting for local morning television and contributed guides to a parenting magazine with 85,000 monthly readers. She also keeps a 340-entry spreadsheet of every gift she's ever given her own family — which honestly says everything.