Meet the Team

Marianna Whitson, Organizer & Business Manager

Marianna delights in planning and organizing physical spaces. She loves simplifying and streamlining – anything to create efficiency and ease is worth its weight in gold in this complex and busy life. Connecting and building relationships with clients is at the core of her work, and understanding household values and processes informs her approach to accomplishing the client’s goals. Her sweet spot is helping families and small businesses with an eye toward design.

Over the years, Marianna has helped friends and family organize their homes and businesses, and she’s continually organizing her own home and family, too. Before joining An Organized Life, she spent years working in the advertising industry, digitally organizing photos and other assets. Marianna has an eye for design and uses that as she organizes client spaces – functional doesn’t mean boring!

Marianna lives with her husband, two elementary-aged kiddos and pup. In her ‘spare’ time, she manages a personal business, plays tennis, does community theater, plans awesome birthday parties, and keeps her young family fed and mostly clean. She loves beauty – in art, interior design, nature, travel and life.

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Jenny Dahlstein, Professional Organizer

Having lived in seven countries, Jenny has a lifetime of experience with moving and setting up new homes. She believes that it’s important for people to feel comfortable and free at home. She enjoys helping clients realize their goals by breaking down the organization process into small, doable steps and then patiently working towards solutions that seamlessly work for the client’s household. It is liberating and calming to be surrounded by less clutter and to have a place for your belongings. She loves interior design, laying out floor plans, and coming up with streamlined organizing solutions.

Jenny listens closely to learn what is challenging to each individual client in becoming and staying organized and suggests customized solutions that will ease the client’s routines. Jenny is skilled at seeing the big picture goal, and also attending to all the small details. She has a natural eye for creating good flow, whether it’s inside a kitchen pantry or with larger-scale floor planning and design in a living room.

Jenny’s corporate background is in not-for–profit operations work, developing resources, systems, and training that support public health and education organizations. Jenny and her husband have two college-age sons. She loves cooking, gardening, going on wildlife safaris, and dreaming about tiny home design.

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Johanna Himes, Professional Organizer

Johanna’s background in project management allows her to combine her expertise in creating efficient systems with her passion for helping individuals through life’s transitions. She applies those skills on a personal level—whether it’s helping clients downsize, prepare for a move, declutter, or create functional spaces that truly work for their lives.

What Johanna loves most about professional organizing is the opportunity to connect directly with people and make an immediate, positive impact. She understands that organizing is about more than aesthetics—it’s about bringing clarity and calm into people’s lives. Whether supporting families managing significant changes, assisting seniors relocating, or helping those who struggle with organization, Johanna approaches each project with empathy, creativity, and dedication, ensuring your voice is heard every step of the way.

When she’s not organizing, Johanna enjoys cooking, traveling, playing pickleball, spending time with her husband and two teen girls, and walking her beloved golden retriever.

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Jillian Rosenbaum, Professional Organizer

Jillian’s passion for organization runs deep. She starts with a vision in mind but remains flexible for refinements and enhancements along the way. At An Organized Life, Jillian finds joy in the “deep exhale” she sees from clients when they experience the transformation from stressed and cluttered to calm and confident.

With a degree in fashion merchandising, she also studied event planning and has organized events from toddler birthdays to fundraising galas. As manager of a major accessories showroom in New York City, Jillian honed an ability to sculpt both form and function into vision.

Jillian loves spending time with her family traveling the world and watching sunsets. When she isn’t organizing, you can find her playing with her two boys, taking a workout class, saving home décor ideas on Pinterest or reading a thrilling novel.

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Stephanie Tu, Professional Organizer

Attention to detail and efficiency have always been a strong suit for Stephanie. She has a passion for design and creating organized spaces for family, friends and clients. A former interior designer, her passion for color and design systems informs her organizing projects.

She is an expert in finding systems that work best for busy families, like she has done in her own life. She has moved across the country three times with her family, so she has moving and unpacking down to a science.

When she isn’t organizing, she is managing her four kids, cooking up a storm or watching movies. She is also a regular blood donor and gets great satisfaction in helping save lives with one simple gesture.

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Aiste Jurgilas, Professional Organizer

Aiste is passionate about organizing – it’s second nature to her. She loves finding beautiful, innovative and affordable solutions to keep homes functional and clutter-free. Over the years, Aiste has helped friends and family achieve the type of organization she has created in her own home. Now she is excited to share this expertise with new clients.

Aiste is always up for a challenge; she is confident there is a solution to even the most overwhelming or complex tasks. Many years of working as a logistics manager has helped her develop active listening and communication skills. She helps clients stay relaxed and focused throughout the process, bringing a gentle partnership or higher energy depending on what is needed.

Aiste loves spending time with family and friends, learning more about the organizing industry, and designing and decorating spaces for meaningful life events such as holidays, baby showers, weddings and birthdays.

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Cathy King, Professional Organizer

Cathy’s mission is to deliver professional organizing services with compassion and respect, creating a sense of peace within clients’ homes and lives. She strives to leave clients with tools that will help them not only maintain and improve their environments. She gives clients the support and strength they need to face their clutter and creates sustainable processes to continue managing it, so they can enjoy their lives without it.

She has been serving NAPO as a volunteer and board member since 2020. She holds a Level 1 certificate in Chronic Disorganization from ICD and is a member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals.

Cathy worked for 30+ years as a corporate finance executive managing teams around the world and has traveled worldwide helping teams implement and manage their businesses, transitions and processes. In addition to her work experience, Cathy holds an MBA in Sustainability from Northeastern University helping her and her clients make great environmentally informed decisions.

Cathy is married and has two grown sons and one granddaughter and enjoys a good cup of cold-brew coffee, reading, spending time with her family, holiday decorating, and dogs.

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Julie Anzalone, Professional Organizer

Julie has long been organizing personal spaces for friends and family, using her keen eye for detail and functionality. She also organizes teachers’ classrooms from year to year, setting up their physical spaces for efficient flow and ease of use. Julie understands the value of being validating, compassionate and sensitive when helping clients work through their projects.

During the school year, Julie works in the public school system, helping kids hone their fine motor, organization and executive functioning skills. Although she has summers off, she chooses to work for An Organized Life because she is passionate about organizing and loves applying her professional skills to organizing projects. When she’s not organizing or at school, she loves being in nature and using her creativity.

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There are not enough superlatives to describe how much of an impact An Organized Life has made on me. Recently I downsized from a house where I had lived for 40+ years to a small condo, and I was overwhelmed with the enormity of the task at hand. I am indebted to MJ and her team for their ongoing support and understanding before, during and after my move to make this transition as smooth as possible. MJ’s organizational skills were invaluable when it came to decluttering and finding solutions to make maximum use of the space I had. She made recommendations on reconfiguring closets, adding rollouts and was able to repurpose much of storage items I already had. The end result was to carve out a space that was esthetically pleasing as welI as functional. I found MJ to be kind, caring and very easy to work with. She was astute in her assessment of how best to motivate me by skillfully breaking down tasks into manageable steps that I could digest, in turn she showed me how I could apply these same principles to my every day life. While my initial objective was to make the unpacking and decluttering as painless as possible, in the process I learned how to simplify my life and embrace a new home that I’m excited about.Gloria VoceMay 23, 2022