Dr. Angela Denise Mensah, nee Prater, Ph.D. is a communication professor, a published author, and has spoken at national and international conferences. She is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas as a joint faculty member of Communication and African and African American Studies. She is developing a service-learning project where the University of Arkansas students work with a community partner to teach body neutrality to youth participants.

Dr. Mensah is a feminist critical theorist who believes that oppression is oppression and no one group of people is affected by it more or less than another. Because oppression is a human experience, we all must be reminded when we are being oppressed or being the oppressor (all humans experience both roles whether we like to admit it or not). Body image which includes but is not limited to Ability, Age, and Gender oppression are ways in which individuals still experience overt oppression in society.
Dr. Mensah holds a Bachelor of Science in Television Production from Ferris State University; a Masters of Arts in Communication from Western Michigan University and a Doctorate of Philosophy [School of Communication Studies with a cognate in Media] from Bowling Green State University, 2008. She enjoys nature photography, and contemporary Christian music and loves hanging out with her black Labrador retriever, Hopper!

Dr. Mensah has worked with several non-profits to raise awareness of body image and disordered eating including the National Eating Disorder Association, Mental Fitness, Inc. (formally Normal in Schools), Binge Eating Disorder Association, the Body Freedom Project, and now Body Equity Alliance. As an individual with lived experience, she believes that as children we absorb all the negative messages in society and have no defense against them unless there is an adult that intervenes in a positive way to help. She is committed to working with individuals to work toward a healthy body image toward the self and others to create a better society. She worked in community colleges, research universities, and the non-profit sector to reach a wider group of people that are on the margins fighting to make a better life for themselves and their families.