Stefania Pomponi Butler is a long-time blogger and blog editor/producer as well as a principal and founder of Clever Girls Collective. Her past and present clients include Disney, Wondertime (a Disney property), ParentsConnect, Babble.com, The Savvy Source, Edelman PR, Tonic.com, Dex Products, and Uptake.com where she serves on their marketing advisory board. She is often invited to speak on blog-related topics. She spoke at BlogHer '07 on the subject of professional blogging, at Blogher Business '08 on marketing to bloggers of color, and at Blog World Expo '08 on pitching to mom bloggers. In 2009 she spoke at the Engage Her conference on the subject of Social Media for Business, at BlogHer '09 on the subject of marketing to women of color, and presented the opening remarks at the Blogalicious conference and participated in a panel on Social Media. In 2010 she will be speaking at the Mom 2.0 Summit.
Named one of Forbes' Ten Mommy 'hood Gurus, Stefania has an extensive background in partner marketing/co-branding and social media consulting. She spent almost a decade working in the audio industry creating marketing opportunities between companies, developers, and audio professionals.
Her recent honors include being named one of One of Babble.com's Top 50 Mommy Bloggers, being selected as a Parents' Magazine "Power Mom", and being "nominated" as One of 10 Social Media Women That Deserve a Vanity Fair Article.
In addition to founding the popular and successful cooking, parenting, and design blog CityMama™ in 2003, Stefania is one of the Founding Editors of Kimchi Mamas™ and the MOMocrats™ which secured an interview with Barack Obama and a post from Michelle Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.
As a freelancer she contributes to various corporate websites and has articles published in the August 2008 issues of Good Housekeeping and Redbook. CityMama™, with over 4,000 RSS subscribers, is a Bloglines Parenting "QuickPick" and was named a Top 100 blog by the Blogger Black Book. Her work has appeared in various parenting magazines, in the New York Times, KoreAm Journal, and on The Huffington Post. Stefania brings a wealth of knowledge of successful blogger marketing and outreach strategies to projects as well as her deep connections to the parent blog world.
Stefania lives in Palo Alto, California (the heart of Silicon Valley) with her husband and two daughters.
Babble isn't alone in celebrating the woman behind CityMama; Forbes
recently rated Stefania Pomponi Butler one of their one Top Ten Mommy
'Hood Gurus. Pomponi Butler describes herself as a radical, political,
local-food-sourcing, mostly organic, cooking-from-scratch, full-time
working parent. In her words, "Cooking well for my family is a
political act, dammit!"
Mommy bloggers like Butler, whose devotion to their special passions have not diminished but rather grown with the advent of children, deserve our recognition. There's no room for indifference in the top 50 mommy bloggers, so even if City Mama strikes you as slightly shrill in her call to take your kids to a u-pick farm, at least you know where she stands. Lest we overstate her political presence (some of which has leaked over from her other site MOMocrats, a progressive politics mom-gathering spot of which she is the founder), her menu plans will get you craving and planning delicious family sit-downs.
—Babble.com
With her keen eye for observation and her sharp wit, CityMama™ (Stefania Pomponi Butler) takes on a variety of subjects-parenting, urban and suburban life, pop culture, cultural identity and world events with equal aplomb. Not one to mince words, she doles out praise and throws down rants that leave her readers nodding admiringly and keeps them coming back for more. Warm, witty, and well-spoken, CityMama tells it like it is, and we just can't get enough.
—The Mommy Bloggers
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