Executive Vice President
cfields@langhummitchell.com
Equity, social justice and leadership are the primary threads Cheryl has used to weave a career as a journalist and communications consultant. As leader of Langhum Mitchell Communications’ editorial services team, she deploys a full set of print, digital and multimedia tools to create strategies, products and materials that convey persuasive messages, build support and influence public policy.
Cheryl’s work in public media, labor advocacy, educational equity, and leadership development has helped LMC clients achieve their goals and win awards. Highlights include:
- Serving on the selection committee for Furman University’s 2025 cohort of Public Media Diversity Leadership Initiative participants. Cheryl is an alumna of the program.
- Leading Black Public Media to grow its marketing and communications team from a staff of one to a team of four. The award-winning team now provides social media, engagement, content management, and editorial support to the growing organization, which is a content development and distribution partner to PBS, WORLD channel and NPR.
- Developing, producing and co-hosting an award-winning, live talk-radio show/podcast for the Amalgamated Transit Union.
- Leading the Education Trust‘s editorial team, where she guided the digital launch of College Results Online.
- Providing strategic communications support to the Kellogg Foundation‘s Leadership for Community Change initiative and serving on the national leadership team of the Kellogg-funded Community Learning Exchange.
- Serving as a consultant to makers of the 2013 Peabody Award-winning documentary 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School.
- Leading the successful effort to secure a 2024 Peabody Award for the makers and distributors of Can You Bring It, Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Cheryl holds a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California. The former Poynter Institute of Media Studies fellow loves a good story and enjoys helping clients develop and deliver persuasive messages that have impact.