About

b. 1986, HK.

 juliekarnes1@gmail.com           312-399-3683

Group Creative Director, The Well, Elevance Health, 7/21 - Present
Helped build and lead internal creative department, bringing external agency production and brand advertising within house in two years

Creative Director, Freelance, 9/20-6/21
Loyal Companion Pet Food Stores

Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, 2/14-8/20
Walgreens, CDW, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Chicago Fire Department Foundation

Associate Creative Director, Cramer Krasselt, 11/12--1/14
Edward Jones, Heinz, Panera, New Business

Senior Copywriter, Leo Burnett, 5/10 – 10/12
Special K, All-Bran, Sprint

Senior Copywriter, Freelance, 6/02-12/10
Energy BBDO; EuroRSCG; J Walter Thompson; Digital Kitchen, Chicago, IL, Odyssey Network,
Winston-Salem, NC
Samsung, LaSalle Bank, Valspar, Illinois Tourism, Macy’s

Senior Copywriter, McConnaughy, Tatham & Partners, Chicago, IL, 1/01-6/02
Walgreens, First Health, New Business

Copywriter, 07/00-12/00, McConnaughy, Stein, Schmidt & Brown, Chicago, IL
Walgreens, Old Kent Bank, New Business

 

AWARDS 

Effie’s

DA&D

Communication Art's

Webby

LIA

ADDY’S

Ad Age

Print Magazine

Reggie Award

The Atlantic Writing Contest Finalist
 



FICTION

Family Man, Confrontation
Black Ice, Logan Square Literary Review
I Can Tell You’re Good People, Prism International, The Atlantic Student Contest Finalist
Preservation, Upstreet No. 9
Shannon Takes It Hard, Calyx



EXHIBITIONS

Emily Dickinson Text off the Page Exhibit; Roger Brown Study Collection



EDUCATION 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts Degree, Writing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism, Advertising Sequence