Oh hai Mark!

Hi there!

SO, I made this account back in June, but have yet to write a post. I've never really been a writer or blogger, but when I discovered Steemit I was certainly intrigued. Not sure why it's taken me so long to take this first step, but here we go!

My name is Julianne, though I occasionally go by Julie, Jules, or my classic nickname JShwag (I know, SO COOL). Here's my face!

Oh wow, OOPS, sorry you had to see that... Good one Julianne.

[...I definitely posted that one on purpose...I can't help it, I just love Snapchat filters. It's the little things. You're welcome]

Here's what I actually look like:

Whaaaaaaaat Bitmoji how'd you get here?? (hehehe)

OK OK OK Here's what I look like for reals (glass of wine in hand as per usual)

There are few things in life I love more than pasta. Someday I will open a restaurant called 'Lil Scamps (half joking). I recently went to Italy for the first time (my first ever trip across the seas) and almost died from pure bliss. The picture above is from that trip. If I could give up everything and just eat pasta and drink wine all day I would be more than happy.

I grew up in Holmdel, NJ and lived there until I went off to college in Ithaca, NY (Bombers represent!!) (JK, we're D3 and suck at sports).

LOOK AT THAT HAIR. AND THAT FLIP PHONE. AND DAMN IT WAS COLD THAT DAY.

I studied film and photography at Ithaca College, and received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. Living in Ithaca and going to film school definitely shaped who I am as a person today. Throughout my time there I went through some of the hardest times in my life, got a damn good education, made some life-long friends and met my future husband. I could go on a whole rant about Ithaca, but I'll save that for another post. Bottom line: ITHACA IS GORGES

I've always been a Jersey girl at heart, so it seems fitting that I made my way back to Jersey. After college I lived in Jersey City for 3 years with two girls (women? at what age do we say women instead of girls? we were in our twenties so I guess I should say women? BEING AN ADULT IS HARD) I met in Ithaca. This past February I moved in with my boyfriend in Hoboken (ew cooties!), and now we're engaged (he locked this shit DOWN)! (That's another one I'll have to make a separate post about).

Now that I've been living in Hoboken for almost a full year I've started to become more involved in the community. About a year ago I helped found a chapter of an organization called The Climate Mobilization (shameless plug: https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/). So far my team has had a lot of success getting involved with local government, connecting with residents, and partnering with other organizations. Our ultimate goal is to fight the climate crisis through a WWII scale mobilization, in which we would eliminate carbon emissions and sequester carbon, rebuild transportation, transform agriculture and restore ecosystems.

About a month ago we unanimously passed a Resolution in City Hall that calls for Hoboken to endorse being carbon neutral by 2027, to initiate a community wide Greenhouse Gas Inventory (to get exact numbers on what we're emitting) and to create a subcommittee (that our team is a part of) tasked with using the Greenhouse Gas Inventory to formulate the plan that will bring us to net 0 emissions. Pretty dope right?

So, how do I pay the rent?

I've been working in advertising since 2013, and yes my life is exactly like Mad Men. Except now everyone has email and smart phones and we always have to be on call and WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES?!?!??!!? Jokes aside, I actually do love being a producer, and have been able to work on some pretty cool campaigns. I even became BFFs with David Blaine after working on his ABC special "Beyond Magic" (okay, maybe not BFFs but I do have his cell phone number) (no I will not give you his cell phone number).

I think this is a good place to stop, hopefully you enjoyed getting to know a bit about me and I'm looking forward to writing more of these posts!

Namaste! (oh yeah I also do yoga, good times)

okthxbaiii <3