angela bankhead, Senior Director of brands

Angela Bankhead is a creative and award-winning multimedia producer and marketing leader with over 10 years of experience specializing in creative concept development, curating content and media production with a passion for expanding cultural and brand awareness. Her unique understanding of community engagement through strategic planning traverses the media forms of film, design, art, and photography.

Through her desire for digital media in the culinary industry, this drive led her to join in 2014, the Marcus Samuelsson Group working in various facets of content management, design, photography, art, social media strategy, community partnership and cultural events.

Angela has become a force to be recognized as she continues to create partnerships and collaborate on projects that speak to the community, culture and creativity of the human spirit.

Angela holds an MFA in Design + Technology from Parsons The New School for Design and a dual Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Media Production and Psychology with minors in African-American Studies and English from the University of Houston. She currently resides in the New York area and is always seeking her next food adventure. In her spare time, she is living life and creating chef-like quality meals at her Bankhead Kitchen Studio in Harlem.