About

Andrea Jarrell is a brand and messaging strategist for mission-driven organizations. She works with organizations of all sizes from change-making startups and nonprofits to global B-Corps to colleges and university systems. She is a capacity builder of organizations, teams, and individuals.

As an architect of transformative strategies her superpower is clarifying an organization’s essential call to action and inspiring the right people to act. Jarrell has designed, led, and developed numerous pivotal brand platforms and campaigns as well as content strategy and development for film, digital, and social media. A recognized industry thought leader, speaker, and author, her clients range from Columbia University and The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County to MIT, The New York Public Library, the Social Innovation + Change Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, the Southern Environmental Law Center, Stanford University, the United States Naval Academy, The Wharton School, and Yale University among dozens of others.

Jarrell holds a B.A. from Scripps College and an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. A VCCA Fellow and graduate of Seth Godin’s altMBA, she has contributed to several books on brand strategy and fundraising communications. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, The Huffington Post, Literary Hub, The Christian Science Monitor, and CASE CURRENTS magazine, among many other sites and publications. A Los Angeles native, she now lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.