Elena Kunkel
 

From raising tens of millions for mission-driven organizations to launching consumer brands, writing campaigns that move people, and building brand voices from scratch — this is a small rabbit hole into a lot of years of work that actually made a difference not just in the numbers but in real lives.

01 Copy + Brand Messaging

Atlas Free Marketing Director · 2019–2024 When I commit, I'm all in. I joined as a contractor, earned my way to Marketing Director, and spent five years helping a global anti-trafficking nonprofit find its voice — and its people.

Led the rebrand from Rescue:Freedom to Atlas Free. Hosted galas that raised millions. Built integrated campaigns across dev, design, programs, and web that tripled monthly recurring donor revenue in 18 months and grew the email list from 7K to 20K.

The work mattered. That made it easy to give everything to it.

Jonah Inheritance

Turned a complex healthcare-and-missions vision into a clear investment story that helped unlock a $25K gift in a single conversation.

Coach Across America

Helped turn a broad monthly giving ask into The Huddle, a clearer donor program that brought in 20 monthly donors in its first email.

Legible | CMO

Helped define and articulate a clearer market-facing story for Legible’s offers, workshops, and thought leadership around clarity, trust, and specificity. Developed our offer ecosystem that sold dozens of Clarity Intensives

Social First Copy

 

Where do I start? I’ve been growing audiences and engagement since 2013. Fun things? I started Vanna White’s Snapchat (what a funny sentence!) and Mark Hamill retweeted a last-minute idea I had for Mattel’s VR View-Master.

 
 

Brand Positioning & Copywriting

 

I put some words on a billboard and it got people talking. 

Have you ever seen a billboard for a church? They’re not very good. Sandals Church wanted to increase new attendees across their 9 locations so we did something different. We told people what they were seeing. We went a little meta and used a dash of intrigue marketing. This is an ad for a church. We did that across social, site, and email and it resulted in a 20% increase in YOY Easter attendance. 

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From podcast scripting to adverts for Mattel’s Uno, Whack-a-Mole, and Baby Box Co., I wrote commercials that moved audiences to laugh, feel, and buy.

 
 
 

I put a typo in a campaign on purpose — it worked. 

What do you do when there’s too much noise on a particular subject? You go meta and spell things wrong because things like human trafficking are wrong. 


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Brand Strategy

 

I helped create a self-care brand from the ground up (branding + marketing). We were featured in Goop in year one! It’s called Club Loofah and it’s pretty amazing.

 
 
 
 

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