Lorena Armstrong-Duarte, she/her/hers Communications Director

Headshot of Lorena Armstrong-Duarte smiling in Wilson Library
Email
[email protected]
Phone
612-626-0651
Full position title(s)
Communications Director, UMN Libraries
Libraries department
Communications and Advancement

Bio

Lorena has over 25 years of experience in the field of communications. She has previously worked at Twin Cities PBS, the University of St. Thomas, the Women's Foundation of Minnesota, and the University of Minnesota, having served as Speechwriter and Communications Manager at the College of Liberal Arts. Lorena lives in Minneapolis with her archeologist husband and two sons and is a published poet, writer, and performer. Lorena got her start in communications working with her father, the founder of La Prensa de Minnesota, the state's first bilingual newspaper. The La Prensa archive was donated to the Immigration History Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries in 2021.