Marlena Hartz

As Director of Marketing and Communications, Marlena raises awareness of the good things that the GlobalGiving community makes possible and leads GlobalGiving's team of storytellers. Marlena joined GlobalGiving in 2016 and started telling stories more than a decade ago as a journalist. Searching for a way to bridge the gap between her experience in the newsroom and her time in Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer, Marlena earned her master's degree in International and Intercultural Communications at the University of Denver. She went on to spread the word about nonprofits with solutions to some of the world's biggest problems, including Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, Tahirih Justice Center, and, now, GlobalGiving.