Julia Allison

Julia Allison, 33, is a nationally recognized journalist, relationship expert, public speaker, former BRAVO star & 2008 WIRED cover girl. She is currently at work writing her first book, "Experiments in Happiness," to published in 2015 by St. Martin's Press.

A veteran tv commentator and host, Allison has made hundreds of appearances on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, E!, MSNBC, VH1 & MTV, and has published several hundred articles for publications as diverse as ELLE, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, New York magazine & The New York Post, covering everything from Burning Man to Comic Con to NY Fashion Week to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, as well as interviewing unconventional experts in the realm of happiness and relationships, and examining the impact of technology and social media on culture.  She has spoken at conferences around the world as well as universities like MIT, Wharton, Harvard on new media, personal branding, unconventional purpose driven marketing, and hacking happiness.

Allison got her start as the (sometimes controversial) dating columnist for Georgetown University when she was an undergraduate.  A recovering social media addict with over 300k combined Facebook and Twitter followers, she’s lived in New York, LA, DC and Chicago. Now she lives, loves, and experiments with happiness (and a lot of yoga) in San Francisco.