That Leah Jones

I started this blog in November 2003 and called it "Leah in London."  At the time, I was managing a student residence in London for IES.  This was an easy way for me for people to keep up with me without me sending annoying mass emails or spending a lot of money on international phone calls.  When I moved home from London in March of 2004, I changed the title to "Leah in Chicago" and kept blogging away.  When I started studying Judaism, I added the subtitle or alternative title "Accidentally Jewish." 

I'm that Leah Jones.

• got a degree in chemistry from Millikin University 
• studied in Argentina with IES La Plata
• managed the hotline at the Rape Intervention Team in Durango, Colorado
• ran Camp Snyder when it was all men at Fort Lewis College
• interned with Bike-Aid when Just Act! was still called Overseas Development Network and Bike-Aid hadn't moved Global Exchange
• found out that catnip is an effective insecticide when I participated in the Program for Women in Science and Engineering (PWISE) at Iowa State
• never made it all the way across the monkey bars at University School
• went to drum major camp and oboe camp at Indiana State University
• presented a Top 33 program at NACURH
• managed an ice cream parlor in Ravenswood
• was includeded in the anthology of inspirational stories for RAs
• writes for Shebrew and Jewish Fringe
• really loves Neighborhoodies and should've bought stock
• works at Edelman in the me2revolution in Edelman Digital
• went to Tel Aviv One in March of 2006
• produced "Little Revolutions" in March of 2003 at the Single File Chicago festival
• did stand up comedy in Chicago and took all the classes at Annoyance Theater in 2005
• became a Jew in November 2005
• celebrated my bat mitzvah in March 2007
• participated in the second ROI120 in July 2007 and in June 2008
  
• first used the "internet" in the early 90s on IDEAnet
• is on Twitter and Flickr, a lot
• was a Vice President at Emanuel Congregation
• is the co-founder and co-owner of MyWineTxt.com
• is the founder of Itza Mitzva
• is the owner and founder of Natiiv Arts & Media
• participated in the very first Sleepover2.0

Disclosure

I own Natiiv Arts & Media, LLC where I work with creatives and teach them to use social media to do their own marketing. I'll let you know when I'm talking about my clients.

I used to work at Edelman Public Relations.  I try not to blog about work, but since I'm in the me2revolution Edelman Digital, sometimes I do.  I don't get paid to write about stuff, not here and (so far) not anywhere.  If I write about a client, I'll tell you.  I don't have any ads--cause I'm too lazy to set them up do have ads, some measly google ads. They aren't making me any real money, because I'm too lazy to focus on improving the click-thru rate, same reason I rarely redesign the page or add images to posts.  Lazy. 

I lean left politically, I'm a zionist, I'm an observant, liberal jew.  I love chicago, I love my friends.  When I write about things I love, I probably wasn't asked to write about it.  Seriously, look at my stats, nobody really needs my help to sell their stuff.  I write about jewish stuff, dating stuff, writing stuff, friend stuff, weather stuff, event stuff, weight stuff.