Native New Yorker. Art Director-turned-Copywriter, turned-Freelance Creative Director/Writer and Adjunct Professor, Gina Collura has been working in advertising since 1997. A graduate of the Advertising Design Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology with her AAS and BFA, she dreamed of one day, going back there to teach. In 2014, that dream came true.

With experience writing TV scripts, radio commercials, print campaigns, and working in the digital space before broadband and flash, Gina has created award-winning work at MRM, Tribal DDB, and CDMIConnect. As a Senior Copywriter at MRM, she won one of the first-ever DMA ECHO Interactive Leader Award for the launch of Xbox Live. Her work on Advil earned her a DTC Perspectives, Best Integrated Campaign Award. And she has juried the Caples Awards, DMA ECHO Awards and the One Club’s Client Pitch Competition from 2009-2011. As an Adjunct Professor at FIT, Gina has taught Advertising Foundation, Concepts II, Professional Preparation, Senior Portfolio Development, and has been key to helping students land internships. In the Fall of 2015, one of her students won, “The Big Ad Gig” and earned an internship at Atmosphere BBDO. Over the last five years, Gina has been freelancing at Code and Theory, DDB, Digitas, JWT, and POSSIBLE, among others, and most recently, she won one of the 2016 3% Conference Freelance Scholarships.