Julie McCartin-Donnelly grew up on Long Island in Hempstead, NY, where she had support and encouragement from her art teachers in the Uniondale School District. She received her Bachelors of Art degree in Art and Photography from the University of Delaware, Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Neumann College in Pennsylvania, and a Masters in Integrative Health Medicine from West Chester University. She works as a Certified School Nurse in a suburb outside of Philadelphia. She has four grown children and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two youngest children and the family's dogs and ca...