As an artist, Julián defies categorization. His creations—whether literature, oral storytelling, music, sound design, or visual arts—serve as expressions of his boundless imagination and commitment to pushing the edges of creative innovation. His literary works have garnered significant acclaim, from award-winning short fiction to groundbreaking micro-poetry collections that redefine the boundaries of American poetry. His sound art, including genre-defying concept albums and experimental audio stories, explore the abstract and the intuitive, shaping new sonic and narrative forms.

In his visual art, Julián’s layered digital collages and abstract short films offer a contemplative experience that excavates the complexities of identity, heritage, and liberation. His artistic endeavors also extend to collaborative community projects, including over 150 mural designs across the U.S., commemorating pivotal moments in social justice and public history. Whether on stage, in print, or through digital media, Julián’s artistry is a fearless reclamation of space—an act of creativity that refuses to conform to colonial and imperial paradigms.

Julián’s polymathic nature is evident in his wide-ranging expertise and achievements. As a public scholar, he bridges the gap between academia and the public sphere, making critical scholarship on decolonialism, human rights, and social justice accessible through journalism, workshops, keynotes, and creative projects. His podcast, The Nasiona, and media appearances further amplify marginalized concerns, contributing to a growing movement of decolonial thought and practice.

Julián’s public scholarship work also includes the rigorous studies of the socio-political dimensions of poetry, Marx's humanism and its limits, critical political economy of development amidst armed conflict, historical dynamics in conflict-affected areas, reversing western colonialism's influence on creative writing, practical frameworks for decolonizing storytelling and the creative process, understanding racism as a technological innovation, ethical dimensions of planetary colonization, the creative costs of "deviance," equitable transformative potential analyses, multiply neurodivergent experiences in the creative arts, and more .

As an academic and mentor, he brings a critical lens to every discipline he engages with, fostering transformative dialogues in institutions and communities alike. His writings, talks, and interviews—taught in universities and archived in prestigious institutions such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian Latino Center, the Fernando González Museum and Archives in Colombia, and The Operating System's Open Resource Library's People's Resistance Resources on Abolition, Antiracism, and Equity for his contributions to indigenizing and decolonizing storytelling—serve as blueprints for reimagining cultural paradigms and challenging entrenched power structures.

A visionary culture architect, Julián leads transformative initiatives that reshape how organizations, communities, and societies understand and engage with culture. His innovative consulting and leadership in cultural transformation initiatives emphasize the power of storytelling, creativity, and collaboration as tools for organizational and societal change. By amplifying marginalized voices and designing platforms for diverse representation, he redefines what it means to build inclusive, liberated cultural environments.

Through his workshops and strategic consulting, Julián ignites critical dialogue on how we collectively shape cultural norms and practices. His work challenges traditional power structures and offers new models for community-building grounded in empathy, equity, and imagination.

Julián’s mission is clear: to illuminate the pervasive influence of culture in maintaining societal hegemony while also revealing its potential for liberation. He believes that creativity and liberation are deeply intertwined forces, each unlocking the other’s transformative potential. His work invites audiences and collaborators alike to reconsider freedom and artistic expression beyond the confines of Western colonial frameworks.

In his vision, creativity is not only a path to personal empowerment but a collective force capable of reshaping our world. Julián encourages us all to join him in this journey—to explore the intersections of culture, imagination, and justice, and to participate in the creative liberation of ourselves and our communities. Through storytelling, art, and critical scholarship, he offers a blueprint for a future where creativity is the key to both individual and collective transformation.

As an explorer of imagination and liberation, Julián’s art is an act of resistance and reclamation. It delves into the complexities of human experience, excavating both the personal and universal layers that shape our collective consciousness. His work celebrates the “irrationality” of dreams and the logic of nightmares, transforming them into powerful symbols of creative potential and cultural critique.

Julián’s creations push against the strictures of colonial and imperial legacies, offering instead an imaginative landscape where unconventional ideas can flourish. His art is a bold statement against the limits imposed by society—an invitation to explore the richness of subjective experience and challenge the norms that seek to confine our understanding of ourselves and our world.