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Elena Romero, Tetsuo Tamanaha, Michael Kaye, and Joshua Whitehead

Four Professors Present at Academic Conference in Hangzhou, China

February 20, 2026 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology

Four of FIT’s professors took part in the Second Sino-U.S. Bilateral Academic Conference on Museums Advancing Design Higher Education held […]

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 […]

In Vogue: The 90s: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

October 15, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

The Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology and the Marketing Communications Department present a screening of the […]

‘NEGRITA’ Documentary Screening with Q&A

October 9, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

NEGRITA, the debut documentary film from director Magdalena Albizu, interrogates the cultural prejudice and presumptions surrounding the lives of Afro-Latina […]

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 […]