Chair
Term: 2015-2019
Adjunct Professor
New England College, Henniker, NH
United States
https://rcharddoherty.wordpress.com
As an environmentalist and environmental communication scholar my work on the board will be cooperative and will encourage members to volunteer a little time. I have an ethical commitment to help avert the environmental crises and injustice people face in the world today, and I see working with... Read more |
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Vice-Chair
Term: 2017-2021
Associate Professor
Creighton University
United States
http://sendacook.wordpress.com
As the Vice-Chair of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), I would like to help “foster effective and inspiring communication that alleviates environmental issues and conflicts, and solves the problems that cause them.” Because I valued the idea of the IECA, I joined... Read more |
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Treasurer
Term: 2016-2018
Assistant Professor
University of Rhode Island
United States
http://harrington.uri.edu/person/smith-hollie-2/
As an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island, Hollie works primarily with the public relations program, teaching courses that will help our graduates enter the field as communication professionals. Prior to working in the Ocean State, she lived in Maine while getting her PhD as a... Read more |
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Secretary
Term: 2017-2021
Instructor, California State University East Bay
Global Spark
United States
http://globalspark.org/
As a new board member, I'm excited to join IECA's great work during this turbulent time in environmental communication and especially hope to help increase partnerships! Most of my work has been in marketing and community development with public and private groups ranging from the International... Read more |
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Journal Editor
Term: 2017-19
Associate Professor
Northeastern University
United States
http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/commstudies/people/matthew-nisbet/
Matthew Nisbet is professor of communication at Northeastern University, editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Communication and a founding senior editor at ORE Climate Science. Nisbet studies the role of journalists, advocates, and experts in shaping debates over science, technology, and... Read more |
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Elected Member
Term: 2015-2019
Associate Professor
Brock University
Canada
http://www.brocku.ca/social-sciences/departments-and-centres/cpcf/ma-in-popular-culture/faculty-staff/jennifer-good
JENNIFER GOOD is an Associate Professor of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University (St. Catharines, Canada)
Jennifer Good’s research and teaching interests sit at the intersections between the mediated communication, materialism and our relationship with the natural... Read more |
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Secretary
Term: 2015-2019
Associate Professor
Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Sociology
Japan
http://theieca.org/
I have received my education on three continents, and am now a permanent resident of Japan. My parents loved scuba diving and made their own media (amateur underwater films), but it took me surprisingly long to identify as an environmental communication scholar. My previous fields include film... Read more |
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Appointed Member
Term: 2015-2017
General Manager and Communications Director
Sustainable Coastlines
New Zealand
http://www.sustainablecoastlines.org
Camden Howitt is General Manager and Communications Director of multi-award winning New Zealand charity Sustainable Coastlines. Inspired by a life in, on, under and beside the sea, he has a relentless passion for our oceans. After working in advertising, Camden left the for-profit sector for... Read more |
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Elected Member
Term: 2017–2021
Associate Professor
Royal Roads University
Canada
http://www.royalroads.ca/people/geo-takach
I am delighted to belong to the IECA as a founding member and volunteer, working for and alongside a remarkable band of scholars and practitioners. Beyond prof-dom, I am a veteran writer, filmmaker, workshop leader, speaker and lifelong learner. As an environmental communicator, I aim to shed... Read more |
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Appointed Member
Term: 2016-2018
Head of communications and external relations
WWF Arctic Programme
Canada
http://www.panda.org/arctic
I've worked across much of the communications spectrum over the years, as a researcher, a journalist, a consultant, and now head of communication in a large international NGO. during the early part of my career I was aware that there was research on communication, but didn't know much beyond... Read more |
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Elected Member
Term: 2017-2021
Communications Officer
World Wide Fund for Nature
Uganda
http://www.panda.org/Uganda
I am currently working with World Wide Fund, Uganda Country Office as a Communications Officer. I am fairly new in the field of environment professionally but have always been passionate about environmental issues. Before I joined WWF, I had already been involved in various campaigns... Read more |
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Elected Member
Term: 2017-2019
Executive Director
Earth System Governance Project
Sweden
http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/person/ruben-zondervan/
Ruben Zondervan is Executive Director of the Earth System Governance Project. He is based at the International Project Office hosted by Lund University, Sweden.
Ruben Zondervan is a specialist in international social science research management with experience in science communication,... Read more |
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