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Remanuel@SULC.edu
Director of
Publications and Electronic Media
A 23-year veteran public
relations professional, Rachel Emanuel has been
director of the Office of Publications and
Electronic Media at Southern University Law Center
since 1998. In this capacity, Dr. Emanuel directs
the communication activities of the Law Center, is
editor of its award-winning magazine, Reflections,
and is producer of Law Center video documentaries
and tributes. She formerly worked as director of
publications and electronic media at Southern
University, Baton Rouge campus, and as senior editor
for LSU University Relations.
The Shreveport,
Louisiana, native earned the bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in journalism and public relations from LSU
in Baton Rouge and a doctorate from the University
of Texas at Austin. Her work, including video
documentaries of civil rights pioneers in the legal
profession, has been recognized in local, state, and
national competitions.
She has taught research
methods, documentary, and race and gender in the
media as an adjunct instructor in LSU’s Manship
School of Mass Communication
Emanuel has served as
president of the Public Relations Association of
Louisiana, and was named PRAL’s 1997 Communicator of
the Year for her documentary on the life of the late
New Orleans civil rights Alexander Pierre Tureaud,
Sr., “Journey for Justice: the A. P. Tureaud Story.”
She was also named a 2000 YWCA Woman of Achievement
for her documentary work. The Tureaud documentary,
which had a public screening at the Schomburg Center
for Research in African-American Culture in New York
City, NY, was awarded the Louisiana Press Women's
Association Award of Excellence in Documentary in
1998 and the American Association of State and Local
History Certificate of Commendation in 1997.
Emanuel is a member of
the Southern Public Relations Federation, a member
of the publications committee for the Baton Rouge
Bar Association, a 1998 graduate of the Greater
Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Leadership Baton
Rouge, and a 1998 graduate of the Council for A
Better Louisiana’s Leadership Louisiana. She was
inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fraternity
in 1995.
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