About
Angelé Anderfuren (she/her) is an award-winning multimedia journalist, writer, commercial director/ producer/ editor, blogger, social media manager, strategic communicator, teacher, higher education professional with enthusiasm for her work and passion for higher education. She writes nonfiction about travel and name stories, as well as novels, nonfiction books for kids, creative nonfiction essays, short fiction, and short plays. Angelé has more than two decades of experience as a digital, multi-platform project writer, producer and manager plus more than a decade of higher education leadership and development experience and is dedicated to helping people tell their own stories on their own terms.
In 2025, Angelé was promoted to Lecturer II at the University of Michigan, where she teaches in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) English Department Writing Program (EDWP) in Ann Arbor, where she joined the faculty in August 2021. She teaches introductory writing courses, including courses she’s developed on travel writing, food/culture, and exploring community… all helping freshman and transfer students become better writers, understand writing best practices, and become part of the Wolverine community.
Angelé is super excited about leading a brand new study abroad program in Portugal in 2026 for UM's Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS). The program is two-fold, first with an on-campus Travel Writing course in Winter 2026 in Ann Arbor, followed by a "part 2" of the class in Lisbon, Portugal in May 2026. In this multimedia storytelling course, students will visit must-see places plus unique finds in-and-around Portugal’s colorful capital Lisbon, then write and publish travel stories in Travel Muse Magazine. Students will have the opportunity to explore mythical castles and mysterious gardens, top-rated beaches along the azures of the Atlantic Ocean, the world’s oldest continuously running bookstore, and several UNESCO World Heritage sites. We’ll take group day trips to write about the nearby fairytale-like cidade of Sintra, the beautiful beachtown of Cascais, and the medieval walled-village of Óbidos.
Other points of pride for Angelé while at UM: being selected as a 2024 Michigan Road Scholar and being awarded an inclusive teaching grant to further expand her decade-plus long name stories project, developing the “University of Michigan Name Stories Project.”
Before joining The University of Michigan, Angelé was a professor in the Northern Arizona University’s School of Communication from 2012-2021 where she taught courses in writing, journalism, social media strategy and storytelling; creative media storytelling, writing and production; video/film fiction and nonfiction field production; video journalism/TV news writing, production, reporting, and management; multi-media/multi-platform journalism; client-work production; internships, and related topics. In 2019, she added to her faculty role, becoming the coordinator of the School of Communication’s internship program, revamping, streamlining the program, including digitizing the application and approval process, expanding outreach with internship providers, and working with internal and external departments and clients. She also created social media presence for the program to increase student engagement, internship success, and raise awareness and completed the NAU ITS Manager training program for website design and management.
Directly before joining the faculty at NAU, Angelé served as the Communications Coordinator for NAU’s Office of Alumni Relations, where she was the web and social media manager, in addition to being editor of the university’s multimedia PR magazine, helping to organize events, and engaging with donors, alumni and community members. She also led an innovative interactive design change for Pine magazine, the university’s top social media sites, managed the alumni website, developed and wrote quarterly newsletters, developed/carried out social live events as part of alumni projects, and more. She developed Alumni’s web and social media presence, making the department the highest ranked in social media across platforms for the university.
Before expanding to a career in academia, Angelé spent ten years in television news as a writer and producer for stations in Chicago (where she became a member of the Producer and Writers Guild of America (PWGA)), Dallas, Austin, and Salt Lake City. She’s since spent another decade+ in online and print media. Her stories include hard-hitting investigative journalism, long and short form special projects, lifestyle/entertainment/travel pieces, and daily news features for outlets including CBS News. She brings the skill set of her 30+ years in journalism, working in social, broadcast, print and online national and local media to all her current roles, be that PR, media relations, project management, reporting, editing, or teaching. In her TV years, Angelé’s specialty was producing newscasts and special projects, including heading an investigative unit. In these roles she wrote and produced media content and managed people, schedules, shows, and news, ultimately responsible for what made air on tight deadlines every single day. In the journalism realm, she’s also done freelance reporting for a variety of national and international outlets and undertaken my own independent multimedia storytelling projects.
No matter what Angelé is writing about, she brings fresh ideas of interest to readers/viewers and knows how to publicize the stories for maximum impact with social media. At the heart of it all, these stories hope to improve people’s lives in some way, big or small.
