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Elena Romero on the set of Hip Hop Subway with guests

Elena Romero Wins Two Telly Awards

June 23, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

Elena Romero, assistant chair and assistant professor, Marketing Communications, is a two-time winner of the 46th Annual Telly Awards. Her […]

Elena Romero stands in front of a conference table at PopCon 2025; Emil Wilbekin stands with participants in a panel discussion onstage at PopCon 2025

Romero and Wilbekin Present at the 2025 PopCon Conference

April 28, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

Assistant Professors Elena Romero and Emil Wilbekin, both Marketing Communications, both presented at the 2025 PopCon Conference held at Thornton […]

Elena Romero among the panelists; she is third from the left.

Elena Romero Presents at Howard University’s Hip Hop Studies Conference

November 22, 2024 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

Elena Romero, assistant chair and assistant professor, Marketing Communications, was among the scholars, artists, and enthusiasts from around the globe […]

Elena Romero Goes Down in Hip-Hop History

February 12, 2024 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

Elena Romero, assistant chair of Marketing Communications, was recently featured in Nadirah Simmons’ First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed […]

Elena Romero’s ‘LATiNAS’ Nominated for an Emmy

July 20, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Top Stories

Elena Romero, assistant chair, Marketing Communications, has received her first New York Emmy nomination for Best Public Affairs Program (Series) […]

‘Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous’ Opens at The Museum at FIT

February 13, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Events, Featured, Museum

On Tuesday, February 7, The Museum at FIT (MFIT) held the opening reception for Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years […]

Elena Romero and Bronze Telly Award announcement

Elena Romero Honored with Second Telly Award for On-Air Work

July 11, 2022 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Top Stories

Elena Romero, assistant professor of Advertising and Marketing Communications, has won a second Telly Award for her work on the […]

Elena Romero’s ‘LATiNAS’ Wins Silver Telly Award

June 29, 2021 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

LATiNAS, a magazine show on CUNY TV that features the work of Advertising and Marketing Communications assistant professor Elena Romero as […]

The reporters and host of Latinas TV show

Elena Romero Joins ‘LATiNAS’ TV Show as Correspondent

September 17, 2019 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Business & Technology

Elena Romero, Advertising and Marketing Communications, made her professional TV reporting debut as a TV correspondent for the new monthly […]

Elena Romero and guest on the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet

Elena Romero Provides Insights in Hip-Hop Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival

May 9, 2019 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Business & Technology

Hip-hop historian Elena Romero, adjunct assistant professor, Advertising and Marketing Communications, appears in the new documentary The Remix: Hip Hop x […]