Tonya Bell

Tonya Bell serves as the director of media and public relations.

Prior to joining Mellon, Tonya was an account director at Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis. Her experience includes communications roles at small nonprofits and at large institutions including Carnegie Hall and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Tonya has also worked at strategic communications agencies, where she led large-scale media relations efforts for clients in arts and culture as well as those on the front lines of the fight for social justice, racial equality, and education. 

She holds a BA in public relations from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.