Marketing & Communications Manager

Vice President's Office

As the Marketing & Communications Manager for UNM Campus Environments & Services (CES), Lydia Thomas leads the division’s strategic marketing and communication efforts, serves as a key contact for media relations, and manages the CES Marketing & Communications (MarComm) team – a shared-services hub that offers comprehensive marketing and communication needs such as rebranding strategies, graphic design, photography, and website editing support to the CES units. This oversight ensures efficient project execution, as it involves supervising support staff members who manage projects of all sizes. Leadership responsibilities extend beyond this as Lydia chairs the CES MarCom Committee, a group of marketing and communication professionals who lead focused creative efforts across the organization.

Lydia is an exceptional advertising and multimedia project manager with over 15 years of experience in strategic marketing, branding, print/digital advertising, event and project management, and photography with advanced skills in conceptualizing and implementing a wide variety of marketing avenues, brand identity, highly effective promotional campaigns, sales collateral, and more. Lydia joined the Vice President’s Office in January 2024.

As a lifelong New Mexican, Lydia has previously worked in many sectors of marketing and advertising around the state, including several non-profits, 89.9 KUNM FM and the Albuquerque Journal. She is an alumna of The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts and is a current student working towards an MBA in Marketing through UNM Anderson School of Management.