Julio De León is GIA's Associate Editor for Spanish and Bilingual Resources. He served as an editor of Tu Pueblo Canta, a Spanish-language hymnal, now available, that gathers the diversity of Hispanic Catholic worship traditions into one resource for parish life. He also hosts Intercambio, a podcast that creates space for conversation and formation among Hispanic pastoral musicians.

A bilingual educator, composer, choir director and percussionist, Julio taught music in Archdiocese of Los Angeles schools for ten years while serving culturally diverse parishes as a music director and instrumentalist. He has presented formation workshops for Hispanic pastoral musicians, served as a clinician for NPM at its National Convention and webinars, and currently works as a Spanish-language clinician and percussionist at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. He has also served as interim director of the Spanish choir at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and several of his compositions appear in Tu Pueblo Canta.

Julio holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from California State University, Long Beach and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Theology from Loyola Marymount University, where his thesis explored Latino/a theology, aesthetics and liturgical music. He is a three-time recipient of NPM's La Beca Juan XXIII scholarship and was awarded the Miguel Arias Scholarship by Liturgy Training Publications.

With his wife, Lesly Palacios Castillo, Julio co-directs the Cristo Vive music ministry, founded by Lesly's parents in Guatemala in the 1980s, at Holy Spirit Church in Los Angeles, where they have served together for 15 years.