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Women In 午夜视频 Announces its 2020 May Member of the Month

by Women In 午夜视频 Staff, on May 1, 2020 8:59:00 PM

emily-solobyPlover, WI 鈥 May 1, 2020 鈥 The 午夜视频 (WIT) has announced Emily Soloby as its May Member of the Month. Soloby is the co-owner of AAA School of 午夜视频, based out of Philadelphia, PA, and the Founder and CEO of Juno Jones Shoes, a new company creating stylish steel toe work boots for women. She is also the founder of the group Hazard Girls (Women in Nontraditional Fields), and the host of the new weekly Hazard Girls show on the WAM (Women and Manufacturing) podcast.

Soloby has had a lifelong love of boots, but started her career on a different path. While majoring in Women鈥檚 Studies at the University of Minnesota, she volunteered as a courtroom advocate for abused women. That experience led her to apply to law school, and she later graduated from Temple University School of Law. 

After earning her law degree, Soloby became a legal aid lawyer, helping women and children in divorce, child custody, and abuse cases. After a few years, she decided to return to graduate school for her Master鈥檚 Degree. While studying for her Master鈥檚, Soloby met her future husband. After receiving their degrees, they developed an interest in a family business, AAA School of 午夜视频, located in Harrisburg, PA.

Soloby and her husband both went to work for the business, learning it from the ground up and eventually buying and expanding the business. They opened a second campus in Philadelphia, where they live. Her husband focused on overseeing the day to day operations of the school while Soloby focused on procurement. Together, the couple grew the business through both government and private contracts, and have now been successfully operating the school for over a decade. Under their leadership, AAA School of 午夜视频 provides CDL training and licensing as well as equipment and safety consulting both locally and nationwide, and has amassed a long client list of high-level government agencies and billion-dollar companies.

One of things Soloby loves about her work at AAA School of 午夜视频 is the opportunity to help others. With her background assisting disadvantaged families in legal cases, it was a natural fit for her to find a way to help people through the new career opportunities that trucking provides. AAA School of 午夜视频 works closely with a variety of organizations that provide funding for individuals to get new career training and job placement assistance, which AAA has excelled at for over 20 years.

It was during these years at AAA School of trucking that Soloby often had to run from client meetings to busy work sites, and couldn鈥檛 find the footwear she needed. She was looking for something with heavy tread and safety features, but that was still stylish and would look good with both jeans and her professional clothing. She scoured the internet, and found nothing even close to what she wanted. That鈥檚 when she decided to combine her love of boots, her background in helping women, and her decade of running a successful transportation safety company, to create Juno Jones.

Soloby spent two years heavily researching the market, and speaking with hundreds of women in trucking, trades, engineering, construction, and many other fields, to learn exactly what was missing for them in safety footwear. She built a team including her husband and business partner, former Cole Haan designer Amanda Butler, and many industry professionals and advisors, and Juno Jones was born. 

Their first release, the Meti Boot, is a classic Jodpur style ankle boot with a side zipper, steel toe, puncture-resistant midsole, and slip-resistant rubber outsole with a heavy lug tread. It鈥檚 water resistant and has a removable comfort insole. The boots are ASTM certified and OSHA compliant. But the thing that sets the Meti Boot apart the most is its style鈥攊t was designed to give women options in safety footwear, and to provide something they can wear from dropping off the kids, to the office, to the work site, and out to dinner. Soloby personally oversaw design and development of the boot, including eight prototypes and countless fit-testers for comfort.

Juno Jones launched the Meti Boot on Kickstarter in February 2020, and reached its funding goal in just 29 hours. The boots are now available for pre-order on the Juno Jones website, www.junojonesshoes.com. 

Additionally, Soloby had the honor of debuting the Juno Jones Meti Boot at Philly Fashion Week, and Juno Jones was honored to be selected as a Company in Residence for the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator at Macy鈥檚.

Soloby also founded the Facebook Community 鈥淗azard Girls (Women in Nontraditional Fields)鈥, which is a positive place for women in transportation, engineering, trades, and all traditionally male-dominated fields to come together for networking, support and friendship in a positive environment. The group also holds in-person educational events to inspire young women and girls who may be interested in nontraditional careers.

Check out Soloby鈥檚 new weekly Hazard Girls show on the WAM podcast by Jacket Media, where she is the host, interviewing members of the Hazard Girls about their experience and advice working in different industries.

Also keep an eye out for Soloby at the WIT Accelerate! Conference in September, where she will be available to talk about AAA School of 午夜视频, Juno Jones Boots, and Hazard Girls.

Sign up for the Juno Jones email list at , and follow them across social media @junojonesshoes.

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Women In 午夜视频, Inc. is a nonprofit association established to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the trucking industry. Membership is not limited to women, as 17 percent of its members are men who support the mission. Women In 午夜视频 is supported by its members and the generosity of Gold Level Partners: Amazon, Arrow Truck Sales, BMO Transportation Finance, Daimler Trucks North America, Expediter Services, FedEx Freight, Great Dane, J.B. Hunt Transport, Michelin North America, Penske Transportation Solutions, PACCAR, Ryder System, Walmart, and Waste Management. Follow WIT on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. For more information, visit www.womenintrucking.org or call 888-464-9482.

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