Julia Allison
Julia Allison Baugher (born 1981) is a former columnist, online and television personality under the name Julia Allison. She has been described as an early influencer. Early life and education Baugher grew up in Wilmette, Illinois; her father, Peter Baugher, is a lawyer. She earned a degree in political science from Georgetown University in 2004. Career While in college, she worked for Mark Kirk, then a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois, and she subsequently covered the 2004 general election for Comcast. Baugher 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. After rebranding herself as Julia Allison, in 2005 she started a blog, where she posted details of her daily life and dating, and pictures of her outfits. She promoted herself with links to her blog in comments on Gawker