Digital Marketing & Media Strategist, Professional Writer
I’m a brand and performance marketer. I use my creative talent, digital marketing and media acumen and knowledge of marketing technology to develop strategies that increase organization’s audiences, engagement and revenue. I’ve been fortunate to cultivate my expertise while working for some amazing multinational corporations and nonprofits and with visionary and inspiring leaders, both as an in-house marketing professional and with my own consultancy, JMV Media Group.
In addition to my corporate marketing experience, I’m also an arts and lifestyle journalist and blogger. I’ve been creating compelling written and visual content throughout my career. Inspired by an emergence of over-40 bloggers, I recently launched this blog to share on a hodge podge of topics ranging from my favorite cocktail ingredients to beauty tips to suggestions on how to brand yourself in the digital realm.
Palm Beach at Christmas
It took me a while to get used to spending the holiday season in a place without snow, but, after fifteen years, I have to admit that Floridians get the Christmas thing very right. It is beautiful in every way. I just got back from seeing the 2022 Christmas tree at the Flagler Museum and all I can say is, “wow.” Just wow.
The Beauty of the Hudson Valley
I was raised in the lower part of the Hudson Valley region. If you ask me where I’m from that’s the response you’ll get. If you ask me who I am, however, that’s also the response you’ll get.
I feel a kinship with the Hudson River School painters, like Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and Frederic Edwin Church. I have a bachelor’s in art history. I’ve focused on Italian art from the Renaissance Art to the present and American art from the Hudson River School till the present. I continue to study and learn all I can. It’s an enjoyable and interesting lifelong journey!