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Remanuel@SULC.edu
Director of
Publications and Electronic Media
A 30-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 and
public relations techniques and strategies as an
adjunct instructor for the Southern University
Department 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. Her latest documentary,
“Taking A Seat for Justice: The 1960 Baton Rouge
Sit-Ins,” premiered November 10, 2006, in Baton
Rouge and November 12 on Louisiana Public
Broadcasting (LPB). It garnered her the 2007 YWCA
Racial Justice Award.
Emanuel is
past chairman of the Baton Rouge Film Commission,
serving her second term on the board. She is a
member of the Southern Public Relations Federation,
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.
Her
biography on A. P. Tureaud has been approved for
publication by LSU Press in spring of 2011.
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