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Joy Kennelly, Bio
A Professional Marketing Specialist and Blogger, Joy Kennelly has covered the worlds of entertainment, travel, technology, fashion, and politics for more than ten years. Clients have included VOX DJs, Actor Domiziano Arcangeli, Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau, The Shore Restaurant & Lounge, Chef David Linville, Original Long Beach Lobster Festival, and American Institute of Architects, among others.

As a travel writer who has traveled extensively abroad and domestically, she has written publicity materials, tour guides, blogs and website copy. Her travel articles have been published in the Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper, Coastal Traveler, and in Healthcare Traveler magazine; her publicity materials about ten of the top museums and most of the major attractions in Los Angeles were used by the Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau as promotional materials for media outlets and photographers world-wide.

She has also written about four-star hotels that include the former Scottsdale Mondrian and the Hotel De Anza in San Jose, CA; Food & Wine festivals nation-wide highlighting her client, Chef David Linville’s involvement in the Grand Food & Wine Affair, the 38th Annual Scottsdale Culinary Festival and Los Angeles Magazine’s Food Event. Independently, her blog coverage on Big Sur and Hearst Castle was an inspiration for a television travel show.

As a travel expert, she wrote the script and appeared in “Beating the High Cost of Travel,” an infomercial featuring Tom Parsons and Casey Kasem. Her interesting travels garnered her Spirit of Adventure honor from the Youth Hostels of America Organization.

Additionally for the last six years, she has attended and blogged about LA Fashion Week covering such designers as, Sue Wong, Kevan Hall, Louis Verdad and others.

Voted a Who’s Who in Technology for her work producing an online film festival for Penton Media, Joy has also covered Tech Conferences including OMMA (Online Media, Marketing and Advertising), Digital Hollywood and most recently SES (Search Engine Strategies).

An avid political blogger, she was an invited guest to President Obama’s Inauguration Ceremony in Washington, DC and regularly covers city politics in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach.

Education

• Seattle Pacific University
• 2010 -