About Citilista

Citilista strengthens communities.

How? Citilista is a neighborhood network that links locals, merchants, causes and events together in one hyperlocal website. By bringing together these separate aspects of your home town, Citilista provides a platform that not only lets the neighborhood know more about your community but allows it to stand out in an ever expanding online world.

This online hub of information is also a conversation between residents, where they can find out more about the farmers market, water conservation rules imposed by the city or a sale at the nearby bookstore.

The Citilista team:

Alexandra Asselin is the online community manager at NBC.com. Before NBC, Alex worked at Revver- an online video sharing site, that she helped build from the ground up. Alexandra Asselin, who lives in Echo Park, was born in Paris, France and spent her childhood between the United States, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic.

Alex Cohen is a new media specialist with the public relations firm Golin Harris, where he maintains an online presence for such brands as Toyota, Yamaha, Mattel and Kaiser Permanente. The Glendale resident also works in his parent’s Santa Monica gallery.

Eddie North-Hager does public relations for the University of Southern California, placing stories about the university and its professors in national media outlets. He also created the online newspaper and social network Unviersity Park Family for the neighborhoods around USC and Exposition Park. Before USC, Eddie was a journalist at daily newspapers for more than 15 years and now – The Arizona Republic, The Tucson Citizen, The Daily Breeze and four others. He lives in Leimert Park: The Soul of Los Angeles, where he is the chaplain for his block club. He also created Leimert Park Beat, the neighborhood’s online newspaper and social network.

All three members of Citilista are getting their master’s degrees in communications with an emphasis in online communities at USC. Citlista is one of three projects born out of the Annenberg Program on Online Communities that were chosen to be turned into working websites by December 2009.