Hey, Olivia here. Thanks for giving me a few minutes out of your day. J-Walking Jams is my best thing and I’m so excited you’re here to share it with me.

J-Walking Jams is the product of a high school playlist of mine called “hallway jams”. It was the first playlist I had ever put thought and feeling into, and it ended up being largely the reason I survived high school. As my hallways became city streets in my transition to college, hallway jams became J-Walking Jams, the soundtrack to my commute, my classes, my life.

J-Walking Jams became a little bit more than a playlist and a pipe dream when I got an internship with the George Washington University radio station, WRGW. I interned for a senior named Maddie, who would become one of my closest friends and greatest allies in my first year of college. She taught me how to work a soundboard and create an entertaining broadcast for listeners. At the conclusion of my fall semester, I auditioned for airtime of my own and was selected to have a radio show for that spring.

I called it J-Walking Jams. As my own music taste is varied and unconfined by genre, I thought it was only right to have my show reflect that. Each week, I themed a show according to a sensation or a feeling, rather than a genre. You can find my show playlists and their theme explanations under the JWJ Projects tab.