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.