Julia Allison

Julia Allison (born Julia Allison Baugher on February 28, 1981) is a former journalist, television commentator, and public speaker.
She has appeared as a guest commentator on a number of US television networks and co-starred on one season of the Bravo reality show Miss Advised in 2012. She worked as a columnist for amNewYork, as an editor-at-large for Star magazine and with Time Out New York as a columnist. She became a nationally syndicated technology columnist with Tribune Media Services and had a column on love in ELLE. She has also appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Guardian and Cosmopolitan.
Personal life
Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago. She is the daughter of Robin and Peter Baugher, president of the Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association.
Education
Allison graduated in 1999 from New Trier High School. She transferred to Georgetown University in 2001, where she received a bachelor's degree in Government in 2004.
Career
Allison worked as a legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican congressman Mark Kirk in the 107th Congress, later, during the 2004 election, contributing political commentary for Comcast TV.
She worked as a columnist for amNewYork, and for one year she worked as an editor-at-large for Star magazine, where she did not do any editing per se, but instead appeared on TV as a representative of the magazine. In 2007, she joined Time Out New York as a columnist, a position held until the summer of 2009. She also had a monthly column in COED magazine. She became a nationally syndicated technology columnist with Tribune Media Services and had a column on love in ELLE.
Her writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Guardian,
She co-starred on one season of the Bravo reality show Miss Advised in 2012, and she has made occasional appearances on Fox Business's Happy Hour and Fox News' Red Eye show; and regular appearances as a commentator on Fox News segments, CNN's Reliable Sources, Headline News' Showbiz Tonight, and Glenn Beck news-commentary show. Other appearances include , MSNBC's Scarborough Country; Montel Williams, NY Residential, The Wendy Williams Show, and MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung. Local media appearances include New York City's Fox 5 and Sirius radio. She co-hosted NBC New York Nonstop's TMI Weekly, which is jointly owned by Next New Networks.
She appeared on the July 2008 cover of Wired magazine's in August 2008, and the February 2008 cover of Time Out New York. In June 2018, Allison was interviewed for the New York Post about moving to NYC and taking on the persona of Carrie Bradshaw from the HBO series Sex and the City.
Allison's public speaking appearances deal with new media and marketing, and engagements include Digital Life Design (DLD) conferences in Munich, Germany; at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and at Wharton business school on female entrepreneurs. In addition, she has worked with various brands, including as a spokesperson for Sony until early 2010.

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