About

Val Montanez is a photojournalist and a recent alumna of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Throughout her four years at Kansas, she worked for two newspapers, primarily covering sports. She served as Multimedia Editor at the University Daily Kansan, Kansas’ student-run newspaper and freelance preps photographer for the Lawrence Journal-World, one of Lawrence’s public news papers. In 2025, she was a photographer for the Kansas City Monarchs, a professional baseball team in the American Association, an MLB partner.

She earned a Bachelors of Science in Journalism and Mass Communications with minors in sport management and photography in May 2026.