Galef's activities as a writer, podcaster and president of the Center for Applied Rationality are mentioned by The Atlantic, The Verge, and NPR. Since April 2015 she has been the sole host of the Rationally Speaking podcast. Galef began writing the blog Measure of Doubt in 2011 with her brother, as well as writing for Religion Dispatches and Scientific American. Galef (right) at Het Denkgelag 2015 moderating a conversation between Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss From 2010 to 2015, she was a speaker for the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism. She gives public lectures to organizations including the Center for Inquiry and the Secular Student Alliance. Galef frequently speaks on rationality and moderates debates at skeptic conferences. The show has hosted conversations with public intellectuals such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, James Randi, and Peter Singer. Their first episode was released on February 1, 2010. In 2009, Galef began co-hosting the Rationally Speaking Podcast with the philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci.

She was elected a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2015. The organization also gives workshops to train people to internalize and use strategies based on the principles of rationality on a more regular basis to improve their reasoning and decision-making skills and achieve goals. She co-founded and became president of the nonprofit Center for Applied Rationality in 2012. In 2010 she joined the board of directors of the New York City Skeptics. She received a BA in statistics from Columbia University. Galef was born in 1983 in Maryland into a Jewish family. She hosts Rationally Speaking, the official podcast of New York City Skeptics, which she has done since its inception in 2010, sharing the show with co-host and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci and produced by Benny Pollak until 2015. Julia Galef ( / ˈ ɡ eɪ l ə f/ born J) is an American philosopher of science, writer, speaker and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality.

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