Jennifer Allen currently lives just outside Plattsburgh in upper state NY, USA. She has attended the University of Southern Maine and is currently a Red Team Manager for a cybersecurity company.
Jennifer is also the person who coined the term, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
But that is not all. She has been a significant contributor to the ASMR community from the start.
Here is an incomplete list of her incredible involvements and achievements:
October 29, 2007 could be viewed as the birth date of the ASMR community.
On this day, an individual by the username of “okaywhatever” started a forum thread at the website http://www.steadyhealth.com.
The title of the thread was, “Weird sensation feels good” and attracted over 300 replies. The content of these initial replies quickly created a clear and consistent description of ASMR which still accurately describes ASMR today.
Some of the participants in the thread, such as Jennifer Allen and Andrew MacMuiris, spawned out and developed resources which were monumental to the growth and understanding of ASMR.
Overall, this forum thread lead directly to the following ASMR milestones:
ASMR University 