jen kofford

One of the most profound things a creative director ever said to me was, “Look at all these people – this whole crew, talent, everybody – they’re all here to take something that was in your brain and bring it to life.”


Take a stroll around my site and you’ll find a few things that began as 3:00 a.m. scribbles in a bedside notebook. Briefs that I couldn’t shake loose until the headline was just right. Concepts that willed their way through the gauntlet of reviews, revisions, and rewrites.


And there’s plenty more where these came from. I thrive in every phase of the creative process and can take just about anything from strategy to delivery. If something doesn’t work, I’ll keep at it until it does.


Good thing because something else I heard from a CD was, “That copy messes up the design, get rid of it.”


So, you know. You win some, you lose some.

experience

CREATIVE DIRECTOR, COPY | TrendyMinds, Inc. | Indianapolis, IN


STORY PRODUCER + DIRECTOR | GO Films | Pleasant Grove, UT


SCREENWRITER | Future Movie Productions | Salt Lake City, UT


SENIOR COPYWRITER | Faktory | Centerville, UT


FREELANCE COPYWRITER + SPOKESPERSON | Various Clients | Layton, UT


LEAD COPYWRITER | NetPartner | American Fork, UT


COPYWRITER | EuroRSCG DSW | Salt Lake City, UT


INTERN | Ogilvy & Mather | New York, NY


CLIENTS | CommonSpirit Health, Slack, Salesforce, Centura Health, Dominion Energy, Cyprus Credit Union, Genesis Park Capital Partners, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Intermountain Health, Castell Health, BYUtv, Desert Financial Credit Union, Creating Keepsakes, Intel, Iomega, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance


education

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | Provo, UT

BACHELOR OF ARTS | Communications/Advertising

MINOR | English


etc.

DAYS FOR GIRLS INTERNATIONAL | organization that advances menstrual equity; work with a local chapter to create and distribute hygienic, reusable period kits to girls around the globe


CHURCH VOLUNTEER | teach lessons to adults and youth; volunteer in the community; served for 1.5 years as a missionary in Venezuela, learned to speak, read and write Spanish


SUBSTITUTE TEACHER | four years at a local high school teaching a variety of subjects including English, Adult Roles, History, Anatomy and Interpersonal Communication