About SP
Born in 1986, Sami Promisloff has been (to a degree) blowing people away since she miraculously knew how to insert a VHS tape and press play on a VCR at 18 months old. Contrary to popular belief, however, she did not grow up without parents and the presence of other children and the sole company of a television set. She just likes the stuff. A lot.
Foregoing the starring roles and solos of her childhood in community theater and honors choruses, she has been spinning around the wheel of life and the world of media since age 15, when she interviewed John Mayer with a Talkboy tape recorder for a school project. A winner of local and national editorial awards, she has covered breaking bands, festivals, and various instances of pop culture zeitgeist for outlets including Spin, Billboard, and Paste.
In 2008, she moved to New York City and started her first big girl job on the day that everyone discovered the Wall Street Monster ate everyone’s money, and then asked for a second helping. In the years since, she has brought her pop culture perspective and a hunger for innovation to various advertising efforts for Google, Disney, HBO, and AMC among others.
Aside from professional pursuits, she has created, endorsed, and distributed ideas with extreme virility among millennials and other people who generally like to laugh at things: the #sorry4partying hash tag and state of mind, the epic “Oh Lilo” email chain (often syndicated to this very space), and most recently, Tom Haverfoods - a tribute to the brilliance of Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansari and writer Alan Yang. She also has a profoundly strange track record of winning life-alteringly amazing shit from completely random sweepstakes entries.
There are a lot of things she would like to do in the next few years that do not include getting married and having babies. Storytelling, screenwriting, stand-up, and perpetual social chair-ing at the mere top of the list - because that is the point of SASSYPANTS - being a strong, confident, savvy young lady with a voice.
