Monika Julien

Assistant Teaching Professor, Music Industry

Julien is an experienced strategic marketing professional who has managed music marketing strategies for globally recognized brands including Red Bull and Converse. Her expertise lies at the intersection of music, culture, brand partnerships, and inclusion, with a deep understanding of how companies are seeking to align themselves with entertainers, cultural influencers, and popular youth culture.

 

She has over a decade of experience developing and executing music and culture marketing initiatives for brands. She led Red Bull’s cultural marketing strategy and programming in New York City, producing events such as the Red Bull Music Festival, Red Bull Culture Clash, and Red Bull Skate NYC Stages. Julien has also developed music marketing campaigns for brands including Converse, Sonos, Spotify and Pabst Blue Ribbon; and played an integral role in developing Converse’s community-based Rubber Tracks program for emerging and established recording artists.

 

Julien is a graduate of Drexel’s Music Industry program and former program director and DJ of its student radio station, WKDU. Her teaching and advocacy centers around building community and expanding inclusive representation and opportunities for women and people of color in the music industry.

In The News

A Sound of Philadelphia Music Producer’s Work Sat in the Sigma Sound Archives for 50 years. Now Drexel Students are Bringing it Back to Life.
Monika Julien, an assistant teaching professor, and Toby Seay, PhD, a professor, both in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, were quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer story on May 29 about Drexel’s MAD Dragon record label reviving an unreleased album from the Sigma Sound archive 54 years after it was recorded. Students Adriana Criswell, Hayden Clark, Cole Herrmann,  Bella Kaminsky and Harper Risch were also mentioned in the story.
Drexel Students Unearth Never Before Heard Sigma Sound Recordings
Monika Julien, an assistant teaching professor; and Hayden Clark and Harper Risch, undergraduates, all from the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, were interviewed in a May 18 WPHL-TV (PHL-17) segment about their work to resurrect and release an album originally recorded in Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studio 54 years ago.
Philly-Recorded Soul Album Gets Proper Release 54 Years Later
Monika Julien, PhD, an assistant teaching professor, and Toby Seay, PhD, a professor, both in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, were interviewed in a WXPN-Radio story on May 8 about Drexel’s MAD Dragon record label reviving an unreleased album from the Sigma Sound archive 54 years after it was recorded. Students Adriana Criswell, Hayden Clark, Cole Herrmann,  Bella Kaminsky and Harper Risch were also mentioned in the story.
Drexel Women Hit the Right Note in Music Industry Spotlight
Monika Julien, an assistant teaching professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and Drexel alumnae Ashley Vanett and Samantha Haynie, were interviewed in a March 24 Women's History Month segment on WPHL-TV (PHL-17) about women in the music industry and how Drexel's co-op program and alumni network prepare graduates for careers in the industry.

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Drexel’s Student Record Label Revives Unreleased Album By Washington, D.C. Band Recorded Over Half a Century Ago  
Students in Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and the University’s student-operated record label MAD Dragon Records revived a new album out of Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studios nearly four decades after the iconic recording venue’s closure.
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