Leonel Monroy Jr.

Dedicated photojournalist with strong understanding of photography equipment and techniques. Skilled in capturing and editing images with keen eye for detail. Creative and committed to telling stories through photographs.

•  2022 Texas School Public Relations Association's Star Awards, Silver Stars photo academic setting "First Day of School Ready" 

•. 2019 Texas Education Agency Annual Report photograph used of 2019 commencement ceremony at the historic El Paso High School Jones Stadium 

 •  2018 Texas School Public Relations Association's Star Awards, Gold Stars photo academic setting "Teddy Bear Clinic" and photo other subject     "Stanton Hero"; Silver Stars photo academic setting "Silva Health Students at the Lab"; Best In Category photo academic setting "Teddy Bear  Clinic"

 •   2000 National Association of Hispanic Journalists 18th Annual Convention in Houston, Texas, panel coordinator and presenter, “Challenges of Covering an International Border: El Paso and Juarez”

 •   1998 National Press Photographers Association, Region 8, July second place in Spot News

• 1996 Texas Associated Press Managing Editors, honorable mention in Spot News photography Class AAA
• 1996 New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors, first place in Spot News
• 1995 Texas Associated Press Managing Editors, honorable mention in Spot News photography Class AAA
• 1993 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Journalism Award in Division 1 Newspaper Picture Story
• 1992 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Journalism Award in Division 1 Newspaper Feature Photo
• 1998 National Press Photographers Association, Region 8, July second place Spot News
• 1996 New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors, first place Spot News

•  July 12, 2003  Photo exhibit Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez Benefit Art Show at the Court Youth Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Exhibit to benefit organizations that support the families of the Femicide victims in Juarez, Chihuahua and Chihuahua, Chihuahua and the Casa Amiga Crisis Center in Juarez, Chihuahua

•. Jan. 21-Feb. 25, 2005  Photo exhibit “A Quest for Truth, Demanding Answers to Femicide in Juarez” at the University of Texas at El Paso campus Union Gallery

•  August 13, 2005  Megapixels Digital Photo Club’s Digital Photo Show at The Drip Coffee Lounge in El Paso, Texas

•  March 29-31, 2006  Photo exhibit “Juarez: Mother of the Disappeared” during the J. Paul Taylor Symposium on Social Justice at the New Mexico State University campus in Las Cruces, New Mexico

•  May 8-9, 2006  Photo exhibit during the “V-Day” (End of Violence Against Women Day) performance of “The Vagina Monologues” presented by Eve Ensler and starring American actress Jane Fonda and Mexican actress Salma Hayek at Centro Cultural Telmex, Theater 2, in Mexico City, Mexico

•  November 1-8, 2008  Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) photo exhibit at the Chamizal National Memorial’s (National Park Service) Los Paisanos Gallery in El Paso, Texas

•  December 10, 2008- Dos Mundos, Mil Lentes photo exhibit at the Chamizal National Memorial’s (National Park Service) Abrazos Gallery in El Paso, Texas

•  It’s an El Paso Thing, Copyright 2005 by the El Paso Times staff

•  Cosecha de mujeres: Safari en el desierto Mexicano, Copyright 2005 by Diana Washington Valdez

•  Cosecha de mujeres: Safari en el desierto Mexicano, Toda la verdad sobre los asesinatos de mujeres en Ciudad Juarez y Chihuahua (Spain Edition), Copyright 2005 by Diana Washington Valdez

•  The Killing Fields, Harvest of Women, The Truth about Mexico’s bloody border legacy, Copyright 2006 by Diana Washington Valdez

•  Harvest of Women, Safari in Mexico (1993-2005) The truth about the murders of girls and women in Juarez, Mexico, Copyright 2006 by Diana Washington Valdez

•  Violence and Activism at The Border  Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez, Copyright 2008 by Kathleen A. Staudt

•  Cosecha de mujeres: Safari en el desierto mexicano (El Dedo En La Llaga – Spanish Edition), Copyright 2012 by Diana Washington Valdez

•  Deconstructing Eurocentric Tourism and Heritage Narratives in Mexican American Communities, Juan de Oñate as a West Texas Icon, Copyright 2019 by Frank G. Perez and Carlos F. Ortega

•Newsweek

•The New York Times

•The Dallas Morning News

•Popular Mechanics

•Adweek’s Marketing y Medios

•TeacherTube

•Poder Magazine

•Texas School Business Magazine

•Hoyinternet.com

•El Paso Inc.

•Yen Magazine

•DeSoto Today

•Chiropractic Economics

•Indian Country Today

•Delo (Slovenian magazine)

•United Press International

•Associated Press

•Crosswinds Weekly

•Connections, Minot State University Alumni Association publication

•Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies