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Former online personality (born 1981)
Julia Allison, 2007 or 2008

Julia Allison Baugher (born 1981) is an American former columnist and online and television personality under the name Julia Allison. She has been described as an early influencer.

Early life and education

Allison grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. She earned a degree in political science from Georgetown University in 2004.

Career

While in college, Allison worked for Mark Kirk, then a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois, and she subsequently covered the 2004 general election for Comcast.

Allison began her writing career in 2002 with a dating column in the Georgetown University student newspaper, called "Sex on the Hilltop" after the TV show Sex and the City. The column attracted national attention and she published articles in magazines such as Seventeen and Cosmopolitan. After graduation, she moved to New York, where she became a weekly columnist for the free paper AM New York and auditioned for and appeared in pilots for reality TV shows.

In 2005 she started a blog, where she posted details of her daily life. In 2007 she became the dating columnist at Time Out New York. She also wrote for Elle and was a tech columnist for Tribune Media Services. Her fame led to a profile in the New York Times and a cover story in Wired, both in 2008, in addition to network television appearances.

Allison carefully crafted her online identity, including staged photographs intended to appear impromptu, and monetized it in ways now called being an influencer. She formed a company called Non Society and pitched the idea of a collaborative living space for social media content producers, now called a collab house; Bravo filmed the pilot of a projected reality show, IT Girls. She acquired corporate endorsement deals and co-starred in the ad for the Sony Vaio laptop, spoke at business conferences, and attended the annual World Economic Forum meeting and the White House Correspondents' Dinner. In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles, where she co-starred in Miss Advised, a reality show that ran for one season on Bravo.

In 2012, she withdrew from public life, erasing or making private most of her social media posts. In 2018, she said she moved to San Francisco, worked on a book called Experiments in Happiness, and became a change activist. As of 2023 she plans to pursue a master's degree at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Personal life

In 2023, she became engaged to Noah Feldman, a professor of law at Harvard.

References

  1. ^ "Julia Allison". DLD Conference. January 15, 2009. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009.
  2. Cite error: The named reference Crain was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Meet our new dating scribe". Time Out New York. May 10, 2007. Archived from the original on August 28, 2018.
  4. ^ Taylor Lorenz (September 13, 2023). "She Invented Being an Influencer — And Was Vilified for It". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on September 20, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  5. Sarah Adler (May 13, 2012). "Tech newlyweds devise Weduary app with apt timing". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 2, 2023. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  6. Leslie Kaufman (March 30, 2008). "Channeling Carrie". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 21, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  7. Jason Tanz (July 15, 2008). "Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion". Wired. Archived from the original on September 20, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  8. Rex Sorgatz (June 17, 2008). "The Microfame Game". New York magazine. Archived from the original on January 30, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  9. Ruth Graham (June 4, 2018). "From 'Fameball' to 'Change Activist'". Slate. Archived from the original on November 2, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  10. Joseph Bernstein (September 20, 2023). "Julia Allison, Pioneering Influencer, Finds Love With Law Scholar Noah Feldman". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 20, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.

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