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Julia Pimsleur is the Founder and CEO of the Little Pim language education system, and is a former documentary filmmaker. She is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, who was a scholar of applied linguistics.

Biography
Julia Pimsleur is the daughter of Paul Pimsleur, the creator of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery and the Pimsleur Method. She earned her B.A. from Yale University, an M.F.A from the French National Film School in Paris, and attended Harvard’s Executive Education Program. Prior to founding Little Pim, Julia was the co-founder and CEO of a film production company which produced independent documentaries sold to HBO, Cinemax Reellife and PBS. She produced several films in association with the Arts Engine film organization and was featured on This American Life. Her films "Nuyorican Dream" and "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" were shown on Cinemax Reellife and HBO and at festivals around the world. Her film "Boola Boola... Yale Goes Coed" was awarded the Sudler Award for the Arts at Yale University.

She is formerly a fundraiser for human rights organizations, including Echoing Green, CPJ and Witness. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Global Language Project, a nonprofit organization which brings free foreign language instruction to children in disadvantaged public schools, and as Accelerator Chair of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

Julia speaks French, Italian, some Spanish and lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

Career
Julia Pimsleur is the CEO and Founder of Little Pim, a system for introducing young children to a second language using a proprietary strategy branded as the "Entertainment Immersion Method." The company has raised over $6.4 million in Angel and Venture funding and $20 million in philanthropic dollars.

Julia also coaches other women business owners on fundraising and entrepreneurship through her Double Digit Academy,  and her blog on Forbes.com.