Patricia Porter-Mayfield returned to the MEAC in July 2023 to serve as the league's Associate Commissioner for Strategic Communications. She will lead the conference's storytelling efforts, serve as liaison to the league's broadcast partners and oversee media relations.
Porter-Mayfield originally joined the MEAC in November 2006 as the Director of Media Relations, and three years later, she assumed additional responsibilities and was named Director of Media Relations/Corporate Partnerships and Marketing. She was later elevated to Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations.
In total, Porter-Mayfield has 17 years of experience in athletics.
As the Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations, Porter-Mayfield oversaw the conference’s external communications and was the primary contact for football and men’s basketball. She also served as the direct supervisor of the Director of Corporate Partnerships and Marketing and the Assistant Director of Media Relations.
Under her direction, the conference ushered in its first live-stream championships in men’s and women’s basketball. One year later, the conference live-streamed its first volleyball championship. Before her departure from the MEAC, she served as the media relationship manager of the inaugural Celebration Bowl.
Following her first stint with the MEAC, Porter-Mayfield has held a variety of positions, including Director of Partnerships with Spectra at Comcast Spectator, Senior Executive Assistant to the Dean at Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Health Professions and Business & Technology Teacher at N.B. Clements Junior High School.
Porter-Mayfield joined the MEAC after serving five years (2001-06) as the Director of Communications in the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Development League (current G-League) and Southwest Basketball, LLC.
In 1999, she was named Director of Sports Information at Hampton University, and Porter-Mayfield began her career in collegiate athletics at her alma mater, Johnson C. Smith University, where she served as Sports Information Director and Senior Woman Administrator from June 1998–July 1999.
The Atlanta, Ga., native is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She resides in Prince George, Va., with her husband, Vernon Mayfield, and two sons, Micah and Trey.