Zulu Alpha Kilo has added Jenny Luong as its newest associate creative director to partner with recent hire, Nick Asik. This is Luong’s return and reunion at Zulu where she was previously partnered with Asik in the early 2010s. In their previous time together at the agency, they worked on award-winning campaigns like Coca-Cola’s Arctic Home and Corona Day of the Dead. 

After leaving Zulu in 2014, she worked at john st. for four years and helped Presidents Choice win Strategy’s Brand of the Year in 2016. Luong has been internationally recognized by D&AD, Cannes and Webbys for her work on Miami Ad School and the anti-bullying campaign, Kids Read Mean Tweets.

In 2018, she taught at Miami Ad School and then moved south of the border to DDB Chicago, working on iconic American brands like MARS Wrigley, MillerCoors, State Farm, Jeep and Capital One. During her time in Chicago, she was also part of the 2019 London International Awards Creative LIAsions program and was on the 2020 One Club Young Ones jury.

Luong returned to Toronto in March 2020. The fact that she moved back just prior to the global pandemic was a fortunate coincidence. “I really missed the Canadian way of working. I wanted to go back to an agency where the creative process is scrappier and there’s more of a maker mentality. My early career was spent at Zulu, so it felt like a homecoming.”

Before joining full-time at Zulu, she freelanced and helped create the Advertising & Design Club of Canada All-nighter campaign, a 24-hour webathon to save the ADCC.