Branding Yourself on Social Media
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Learn how to use social media to build your personal and professional brand; create valuable content for the stenography industry; and increase your engagement with audiences who may be interested in court reporting as a career.
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Melanie Mendez-Gonzales
Managing Partner
MMG Media, LLC
Call her a multi-passion chaser. Melanie Mendez-Gonzales is the managing partner of
MMG Media, LLC and founder of the award winning blog Que Means What. She uses
the digital media landscape to create and amplify stories about Latina leaders,
representation of the Latino community and her experiences as a Mexican-American
exploring her own identity.
Making her tv show host debut in 2022, Melanie was chosen as the host of ¡SALUD! on
KLRN, Season 2. ¡SALUD! highlights Hispanic women taking charge in the business
world in San Antonio.
Melanie has received various recognitions but she is most proud of receiving the 2018
TECLA Award “The Jewel Award” for Social Good Content Creator. Melanie has worked
with Fortune 500 companies such as Walmart, Toyota, and Disneyland. She has also
collaborated with local organizations such as Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas, San
Antonio College, and LiftFund US.
She is a four-time South by Southwest (SXSW) speaker on entrepreneurship, diversity
in the outdoors, multicultural influencers, and parenting with STEM education. She has
also been a speaker at H-E-B Diversity and Inclusion Summit, Women’s Global
Connection Girls Summit, Voto Latino Power Summit, and Hispanicize Event.
Past leadership roles include serving as the 2022 Co-Chair of the Latina Leadership
Institute, a program of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and as a Board
Member and Communications Chair of SAY Si (2020 - 2022), a youth arts education
nonprofit in San Antonio, TX. Melanie is Dare to Lead™ Trained and has received a
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Certificate from University of South Florida. She is also a
graduate of Leadership SAISD.
As a proud seventh-generation Tejana, Melanie is raising her two sons in San Antonio
with her husband. You can find her on social media as @QueMeansWhat.