About

PROFESSIONAL

I am a public relations, social media, and marketing professional. I have a passion for people, love event planning, and have an amazingly frightening memory and networking skills. See my LinkedIn profile for specific details on my professional life. Please e-mail me at citysparkle [at] gmail [dot] com.

I am the current chair for the DC Chapter of Social Media Club (SMC-DC). For more information please visit our blog at http://smcdc.wordpress.com/, the national website at www.socialmediaclub.org or the DC Facebook Group. Follow hashtag #smcdc on Twitter.

Check out these videos of me talking about social media and blogging on YouTube. (Thanks @jillfoster @fletcherprince @jonnygoldstein and @storyspinner)

PERSONAL

Why City Sparkle? My sparkling personality of course! If you know me, you know that I love to laugh, smile, and am an overall happy person. I try to hide it, but I’m really a big geek.

Read more about this blog here.

Things I love:

• Politics
• Movies
• Cooking
• Singing
• Mexican food
• Fresh berries
• Avocados
• Martinis
• Tiffany & Co.
• Pink & green
• Pictures / scrapbooking
• Cleaning (no, really)
• Cute babies
• Vera Bradley
• Lilly Pulitzer
• Pretty sunsets
• Forehead kisses
• Beauty - people, places, things
• Jon Stewart
• Georgia O’Keefe
• Ansel Adams
• Nick-at-Nite
• Border’s
• Sephora
• Stilletos
• Grocery shopping
• Seat dancing in my car
• Live music, any kind
• Haribo gummi bears and Sour Patch Kids
• Indie films
• Black & white movies and photography
• Snark
• Debates
• Dirty dancing
• Eating on a rooftop
• Road trips
• Food: Chips & salsa, brie, caramel, egg rolls, bagels with cream cheese, medium-rare steak, hash browns, fried chicken, crusty bread with olive oil and Starbucks chai lattes
• Witty sarcasm (is there any other kind?) and otherwise intelligent humor
• Living beyond my means
• Throwing elaborate dinner parties
• Being girly
• Butterflies in my stomach
• NYT Modern Love column

The best inspiration comes when you least expect it.

COMMENTING POLICY

I welcome all comments, and value your opinion. However, I do reserve the right to remove any comment which is inappropriate. This includes extreme language, personal attacks towards myself, others, or commenters on the blog, and any hateful messages towards a particular group. Please treat others as you would want to be treated.

ENDORSED BY:
“You’re not cynical. You are very smart. Some of the stuff you write is like, ‘woah. She gets it already and she’s only 24.’” ~ Velvet in Dupont, 2006
“If only everyone in the world had a heart as big as AM’s…” ~ DC Cookie/Stream of Jessica, 2006
“Please do not be fooled by this woman’s effervescent personality - she is remarkably incisive and intelligent.” ~ AUA, 2005

***Contact me at citysparkle [at] gmail [dot] com***

The views expressed here do not represent my employers, past or present.