Juliana George

Hello! I'm Juliana George, a Boston-based student journalist passionate about music and culture writing! As an Asian American journalist, I like to focus on coverage that amplifies the stories and artistry of underrepresented groups. If my work resonates with you, reach out!

My Latest Work

Khoury College of Computer Sciences •

At Red Hat, Khoury alumni champion open-source software - Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Parul Singh always wanted to create things. What started as a childhood passion for makeshift art projects transformed into a love for coding and distributed computing, interests that she nurtured in her master’s studies in computer science at Khoury College.
Now Singh is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, the largest open-source software company in the world. Red Hat’s products range from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the widely used operating system that made the company’s name, to cloud-na...
Boston.com •

Review & setlist: beabadoobee and Boston are ‘the perfect pair’ at MGM Music Hall

Since her 2020 single “death bed (coffee for your head)” went TikTok viral at the peak of the pandemic, often soundtracking videos of users trying out the whipped Dalgona coffee trend, Filipina-British singer-songwriter beabadoobee has produced one hit after another.

While more recent favorites like the playful, bossa nova-inspired 2022 track “the perfect pair” and addictive 2024 single “Take A Bite” haven’t necessarily garnered the same magnitude of attention, they’ve earned her an extremely l...
Khoury College of Computer Sciences •

Want to optimize scheduling in high-stress nursing work? Look to dragonfly swarms - Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Anyone who’s ever held a job in a shift-work environment knows the trials of creating a schedule that suits everyone’s needs. This struggle is even more pronounced for nurses, who are in demand 24 hours a day in hospitals that are often understaffed.
That’s why the nurse scheduling problem is an internationally studied subject, one that has become increasingly urgent since the COVID-19 pandemic overtaxed and reshaped the health care industry. To address this issue, visiting professor of computer...
Boston.com •

Review & setlist: Allie X shows up and shows out at The Sinclair

Allie X has been touring since 2015, but Monday night was her first night headlining in Boston — or Cambridge, as someone cheekily amended from the audience — and her fans could not be more pleased.

“Boston showed up and showed out,” she beamed, regarding the crowd with pride. “This means so much. At the meet-and-greet a lot of you mentioned you were waiting for me to come here for four years.”

In 2020, Allie X, the stage name for the Canadian alternative pop artist Alexandra Ashley Hughes, re
The Boston Globe •

Influencer Marius Johnson talks Boston fashion and social media as storytelling - The Boston Globe

“I don’t think I’m at any crazy spot right now,” said Johnson. “But I’m obviously growing and to work with CONCEPTS after a year of DM’ing them is just a testament to having a vision. I truly believe in where I’m going and it’s only a matter of time.”

This January, at nearly 10,000 followers, he collaborated with the company on a post that pictured him styling Puma sneakers from the store three different ways.

About a year ago, Marius Johnson DM’d Newbury Street heritage retailer CONCEPTS in h
Boston.com •

Review & setlist: Bad Bunny is the ‘Most Wanted’ man at TD Garden

Throngs of cowboy hat-clad revelers streamed out of North Station Wednesday night, and they all had one destination: Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny’s Most Wanted Tour at TD Garden.

Once inside, the eager concertgoers were handed lanyards adorned with battery-powered cowboy boots to match the rest of their Western-inspired finery, activated during the show to set the mood of each song with a unique lighting scheme. The lanyards were just one flashy feature of Bad Bunny’s extravagant 2 1/2-
Boston.com •

Review & Setlist: Jamila Woods gets her flowers at the Sinclair

R&B singer Jamila Woods performed the first sold-out show on her “Water Made Us” tour at The Sinclair in Cambridge Tuesday night, and her appreciation was on full display as she swayed fluidly to the music and encouraged concertgoers to sing and dance along with her.

Just like her recent album, the set was interspersed with recordings of Woods reading diary entries aloud, making the small venue feel even more intimate.

Woods, who attended Brown University, called Boston a “very special place”
illume magazine •

On Israel–Palestine, Pro-Palestine Journalists Are Subject to Unique Censorship

On Oct. 30, 10 days after he announced his departure from the Boston Globe, journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Abdallah Fayyad tweeted that an op-ed he had written about the war on Gaza was shot down by a higher-up at an unnamed publication. Fayyad said the piece was “not at all radical or incendiary or offensive” and simply advocated that Congress call for a cease-fire in Gaza in light of the staggering civilian death toll. Fayyad was not given an explanation for the decision, but to him, i
illume magazine •

Conversational Ruptures: Student-Activist Mariam Hassan on Organizing for Palestine

The afternoon of Nov. 9 was cold and rainy, but that didn’t stop approximately 70 demonstrators from gathering on Centennial Common to protest the ongoing genocide and intensified siege on the Gaza Strip waged by the settler-colonial, apartheid state of Israel—as well as Northeastern University’s failure to acknowledge this U.S.-backed bombing campaign that has, as of Nov. 23, killed over 14,000 Gazans, a likely underestimated figure. Protestors set down scraps of cardboard and plastic ponchos o
tastemakers •

Normal American Girls: The Politics of Desirability in Music —

In the music video for “Your Best American Girl,” Japanese American indie musician Mitski is primped and prodded by a pair of white women before exchanging coy glances and flirtatious smiles with a white actor who sits opposite her. He quickly becomes distracted when a white woman dressed for Coachella appears, leaving Mitski to passionately make out with her own hand as the all-American couple grinds against each other obscenely. A more subtle version of this dynamic plays out in the song’s lyr