The Arkansas Advanced Energy Association and its nonprofit foundation have a new communications manager, hospitality veteran Stephanie Trevino Slagle.
The group also hired Miss Arkansas 2022 Ebony Mitchell as its director of external affairs.
Slagle joins AAEA and the Arkansas Advanced Energy Foundation after more than a decade promoting tourism in North Little Rock.
Most recently, she was vice president of marketing and communications for the North Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau. Previously, she worked in public relations at Mangan Holcomb Partners, the marketing agency now branded mhp-si.
“After more than a decade in the tourism industry, I’m excited to shift gears and take on a new challenge supporting Arkansas Advanced Energy’s mission to serve as the business voice for energy in Arkansas,” Slagle said in an AAEA news release. “This is an amazing team with a proven track record of driving economic development in Arkansas’s energy sector.” She said she’s eager to help tell that story.
In 2021, the Arkansas Hospitality Association honored Slagle, a Hendrix College graduate, as a “Hospitality Hero.” She holds a strategic communications certificate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A Maumelle native, Slagle has taken photographs that appeared in Arkansas Business and AY Magazine. Little Rock Soiree named her among its “Women to Watch” in 2022.
A Maumelle Native, Slagle will develop and execute comprehensive communications strategies in the new job. She will oversee all marketing, public relations and digital outreach for AAEA and AAEF.
Mitchell graduated from the University of Central Arkansas and earned an MBA from John Brown University. Growing up in Harrison, she and her two siblings were the only Black children in the school district at the time. She was inspired to be in pageants by 2005 Miss Arkansas Eudora Mosby, who spoke at Mitchell’s school when Mitchell was 9.
Before joining AAEA, Mitchell served as external affairs director of Arkansas Food Bank.
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