As a social worker, Judy worked in nursing homes with the elderly, in residential care with adolescents, and with non-violent offenders in the prison system. She then ran a private practice focusing on the needs of “emotionally disturbed” children, their families, and organizations working with them. As a behavioral consultant, along with others she developed Behavioral Cybernetics.

In 1996 Judith earned a Ph.D. in Human Relations and Cybernetics. Her dissertation was a contextual essay and video entitled “from what to when is (not) violence?” Her committee members included: Minnie Bruce Pratt, Herbert Brün, Bethe Hagens, Humberto Maturana, Rodney Donaldson and Lisa Werthamer. For the next decade or so Dr. Lombardi taught a sociology that emphasized generating one’s sociological imagination, at a university in Baltimore. Here is more on beecoming jude

In retirement Jude continues exploring cybernetic ways of thinking and being while continuing to create videos, write and present to those interested in and about cybernetics as it relates to social rather than dis-social relations and transformations.

Since 2013 jude has worked with the honeybees at the Mt. Washington Arboretum where she helps others learn about, and how to to care for, honeybees and other pollinators. She recently published her first graphic novel The Bees’ Needs.

Jude is also a member of the Barrage Band Orchestra