PARSIPPANY — Parsippany’s own Justin Musella has been named to Insider NJ’s 2023 Power List of Top 100 Millennials. In 2022, Musella was named as #11.
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Millennials are the generation raised by the Baby Boomers, still often called “kids” despite the fact the eldest is entering their forties, and they have their work cut out for them. The Millennials have numerically passed the Baby Boomers who grew up in the post-WW2 era of American economic prosperity and Cold War fears of atomic annihilation. The Pew Research Center says that Millennials comprise those born between 1981 and 1996, and, like all generations, most Millennials identify with certain commonly shared experiences.
As Millennials grew up, like most generations before, they were idealistic, set to change the world. With the wreckage of 9/11 coloring their worldview, they were raised to be “global citizens” and embrace the world and its opportunities, while reconciling the cold facts that the world was still one where force and money were the actual levers of power, now and as they always have been. Millennials went to classes with the memory of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, but schools were still largely as they had been for their Generation X predecessors. Few schools had lockdown drills, security cameras, or metal detectors.
In his second year as Councilman in Parsippany, the young Republican is an energetic campaigner who won the Republican primary and general election two years ago and has subsequently been a strong force in local government. He has made it a priority to engage lower-turnout voters and hasn’t shied away from controversial local topics, at times putting him at odds with the Administration. In gear for re-election in two years, he’s considered a rising Republican star with higher office potential
