Reviews

Here is what colleagues have shared about working with me.

"Marlena is a talented storyteller, marketer, and communications leader. Marlena knows how to scale organizations and movements to achieve impactful outcomes. I had the pleasure of working with Marlena at GlobalGiving and saw her talents first-hand. She developed GlobalGiving's first-ever content strategy, increasing nonprofit enrollment by more than 180%.

Marlena also drove efforts to increase GlobalGiving's brand visibility as a disaster relief organization, resulting in more than $275M for emergency relief fundraising. Marlena recruited, mentored, and managed a team of marketing and communication experts to drive the nonprofit’s overall growth and relevance in the space.

I recommend Marlena to any cause that is looking to uplevel their communications, content, and impact through storytelling."

— Kevin Conroy

Former GlobalGiving Chief Product Officer

Current Meta Social Impact Engineering Manager

“I had the opportunity to work with Marlena for half a dozen years at GlobalGiving. In that time she was an integral part of growing the GlobalGiving brand, building a social media presence, developing an extensive content strategy, and more.

Perhaps the thing that I most valued was her enthusiasm for the GlobalGiving mission and the way that translated into our communications. Nowhere is this more evident than in the internal and external communications framework used in disaster response. GG is now a known leader in this work.

Marlena is a communications leader who delivers.."

— Donna Callejon

Former GlobalGiving CEO

Current Strategic Advisor

“As Director of Development and Communications, I had the pleasure of working with and supervising Marlena for two years as she tackled the job of building and running a brand new communications function/department at Tahirih Justice Center.

Marlena is hands-down one of the most talented, brilliant and dedicated colleagues I have ever had the privilege of working with, and was a constant inspiration to me personally and professionally as she worked tirelessly to strategically message as well as raise awareness of and engagement with the life saving work of the organization.

Thanks to her expertise and and commitment, Tahirih was able to grow its fundraising and and elevate its national footprint exponentially.”

— Yasmin Khan

Former Tahirih Development Director

Current AALDF Development Director