Meet the [Staff] Chiara Mazzucco
Chiara got her start in the blogosphere by dishing out reality slaps on her dating and relationship blog. The brutal honesty that became her signature tone earned her the badass reputation she needed to get The Indie Chicks magazine up and running. She is also a web designer and author of The 9 Mirages of Love: How to Stop Chasing What Doesn’t Exist. Driven, stubborn, and wildly ambitious, she won’t stop until she is the perfect, self-empowered role model for all of her readers. She dreams in shades of gray, has a terrible sweet tooth, and has embraced the fact that half of what she says during social interactions results in awkward silence. Her friends know her best for her intolerable addiction to all things 90’s, hair metal, chocolate and for her most public addiction of all: coffee. She extremely accessible, give her a shot.
Chrystal is a serial entrepreneur and the author of the humorous memoir Unfaithfully Yours: Confessions of a Cheating Bitch. When she isn’t passionately brows deep in her work, she loves to travel, cook delicious food, create art, read and work on her novel. (She’s also slightly addicted to several HBO & Showtime series.) Her amazing and healthy relationship with her boyfriend, Jeff, inspires the sage advice she dishes and her dedication to bettering herself through health & fitness, making her the ultimate workout buddy and motivator. She literally never stops, hardly ever sleeps and has zero problems telling it like it is. Chrystal believes with every cell in her body that you can create the life you want to live and true happiness for yourself. She’s dedicated to helping women and is extremely honored to serve as a mentor/advisor to young Indie Chicks trying to find their way.
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[President, COO]
Julie Zantopoulos
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[CEO, Editor-in-Chief]
Chrystal Rose
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Julie is your classic Type A, detail oriented, list-making perfectionist who just happens to also be messy, forgetful, and whimsical. She finished college with a degree in Psychology but has always been a writer. She found a home in blogging and fell in love with sharing her writing and honing in on her skills for the novel she’s been working on. When not writing or working with over 100 guest contributors to perfect our content on The Indie Chicks, Julie loves to watch bad SyFy movies, listen to music, or do something crafty. She’s a proud aunt and godmother, so spending time with kids and her huge extended family, or friends, is something she will always make time for. Her journey to where she is today hasn’t always been easy but most of the strife, guilt, and fear she’s experienced was self-inflicted. It’s amazing how much lighter you feel when you realize that you aren’t a bad person for following your passions.
Tara Burke
[Intern]
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When she isn't working as an Indie Chicks Intern, Dana is studying for her BA in Psychology while double minoring in English and Biblical Studies. In her down time she takes random trips to LA and to her, traffic means dancing in her car.
Our [Team]
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[Vice President, Senior Editor]
Dana Petersen
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Tara loves seeing crazy marketing ideas become business realities and can’t wait to see how far the IC brand goes! In her spare time, she tries to stifle her wanderlust by traveling and experiencing new things as much as possible. She is currently a Senior at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
*Interested in our internship program? Go to TheIndieChicks.com/intern!
Michelle Oeltjen [Associate Editor]
She hails from Nebraska where she obtained a bachelor’s in Psychology with a dual English / Spanish minor as well as a Master’s in Business. “MO,” as she is known to most of her friends, worked in corporate America for nine years and decided in May 2010 to quit her day job to pursue her passion of writing. Michelle is the published author of her memoir, Love, Lies & Lessons Learned, based on a personal tragedy that occurred on her 28th birthday when she was attacked and THEINDIECHICKS.COM INDIE CHICK nearly killed |by an ex-boyfriend.
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