Julia Allison

Julia Allison (born February 28th, 1981) is an American journalist, a former columnist for Time Out New York, and a co-creator of NonSociety.com. She has appeared on the cable networks MSNBC, Headline News, Fox News and Fox Business. She was the author of a weekly dating column for AM New York, and was an editor-at-large for Star Magazine between June 2007 and June 2008. Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago.

Collegiate life
In college, Allison wrote the dating column "Sex on the Hilltop" for Georgetown University's newspaper, The Hoya. She also worked as a full-time legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican U.S. Congressman Mark Kirk in the 107th Congress as well as in his 2000 campaign. In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University.

Writing and media appearances
In addition to writing for Time Out New York, she had a monthly column in CO-ED Magazine and has written for a variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Maxim, New York, Teen Vogue, Men's Health, Seventeen, and Capitol File. She also does party coverage for the Huffington Post.

She has appeared occasionally on the Fox Business show Happy Hour and Fox News' Red Eye. She appears weekly on CNN's Showbiz Tonight and Glenn Beck, as well as on Montel Williams, MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Locally, she has appeared on New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. In 2006, Allison appeared in an episode of Elimidate. She was also on Gawker's list of personalities of the year in 2006. In 2008, Allison appeared in an episode of CollegeHumor's Hardly Working. Allison was also pictured on Wired magazine's cover in August 2008.