Angeleigha Angel Mendez

Angel is the communications manager for the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, where she develops communication strategies that works to elevate the medical school’s educational rankings and increase research funding, leading to some of today’s biggest medical discoveries.

Before joining the medical school, Angel led the marketing and communications efforts at the New Mexico State University Foundation, Helen of Troy in El Paso, Texas, and for the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council housed at the University of Northern Iowa. She was also a television reporter and production assistant at KMIZ-TV (ABC 17 News) in Columbia, Missouri.

Angel has earned several awards throughout her career, including a bronze CASE award for “Panorama,” the NMSU alumni magazine she led as editor, and four Public Relations Society of America PRIME Awards for her work with the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council. In 2010, she was selected among 1,000 students as a Gates Millennium Scholar and received a good-through-graduation scholarship to attend college. The Gates Millennium Scholars Program is funded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

While a student at Stephens, Angel received three Missouri College Media Association Awards as well as the College’s Sara Ann Fay Broadcasting Award. She worked with Columbia Access Television and the film department at Stephens to develop a weekly television broadcast that featured the staff of Stephens Life magazine. As a student, Angel was a member of the National Broadcasting Society – Alpha Epsilon Rho Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta and Mortar Board: Athena Chapter.

Angel graduated summa cum laude from Stephens College with a B.S. in Integrated Media and a minor in Business Marketing. She received her M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications from Marist College in 2018.