The role of the IECA Board of Directors is described in the organizational by-laws. Elected board members serve staggered four-year terms. Appointed members serve two-year terms and may be re-appointed for a second two-year term.

The Board may be reached at board@theieca.org.

	Franzisca Weder Chair Term: 2019-2023 Associate Professor University of Klagenfurt Austria https://www.aau.at/en/media-and-communications-science/team/assoc-prof-dipl-jour-dr-franzisca-weder/ Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count. *Stella McCartney* I highly valuate the core idea of the IECA to “foster effective and inspiring communication that alleviates... Read more
	Gabi Mocatta Vice-Chair Term: 2021-2025 Lecturer in Communication - Journalism Deakin University Australia https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/gabi-mocatta Lecturer in Communication, Journalism, at Deakin University, Melbourne and Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication with the Climate Futures research group at the University of Tasmania. I research climate change communication, environmental justice and inequality, water... Read more
	Mira Rochyadi-Reetz Secretary Term: 2020-2022 Research Assistant Institute of Media and Communication Science, Technische Universität Ilmenau Germany https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/empk/team/mira-rochyadi-reetz/ I am a junior researcher at the Department of Empirical Media Research and Political... Read more
	Stephen Depoe Treasurer Term: 2022-2024 Professor Emeritus University of Cincinnati United States https://theieca.org COMING SOON
	Shirley S. Ho Journal Editor Term: 2020-22 Associate Professor Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/shirleysho/ I am an Associate Professor in the Wee Kim Wee... Read more
	Catherine Bruns Appointed Member Term: January 2022-January 2024 Phd Student University of Minnesota-Twin Cities United States http://catebruns.com Catherine J. Bruns (B.A. Concordia College, M.A. James Madison University) is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where she studies media discourses of water crisis and insecurity. Her dissertation examines how climatic changes related to water... Read more
	Sibo Chen Elected Member Term: 2021-2025 Assistant Professor Ryerson University Canada https://theieca.org Coming soon.
	Robert Cox Appointed Member Term: 2022-2023 Professor Emeritus University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill United States https://comm.unc.edu/people/department-faculty/j-robert-cox/ COMING SOON
	Hanna E. Morris Elected Member Term: September 2022 - June 2025 (appointed to replace an elected member who resigned) Assistant Professor School of the Environment, University of Toronto Canada https://hannamorris.com Hanna E. Morris (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor of Climate Communication at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto with research interests in climate change media and communication, culture and climate politics, transnational climate movements,... Read more
	Jen Rae Elected Member Term: 2019-2023 Creative Lead and Director Fair Share Fare Australia https://www.fairsharefare.com/about Dr Jen Rae is a Narrm (Melbourne)-based artist-researcher of Canadian Métis-Scottish descent. Her 15-year practice-led research expertise is in the discursive field of contemporary environmental art and arts-based environmental communication. It is centred around cultural responses to climate... Read more
	Tadesse Amera Sahilu Elected Member Term: 2019-2023 Director Pesticide Action Nexus Association (PAN-Ethiopia) Ethiopia https://ipen.org/about/who-we-are TADESSE AMERA SAHILU is the director of PAN-Ethiopia, a civil society organization in Ethiopia working to mitigate the environmental and human health impacts of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. He also served for seven years in the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia as District... Read more
	Leonor Solis Appointed Member Term: 2019-2023 Environmental Communication Unit /Comunicación Ambiental Research Institute of Ecosystems & Sustainability /Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad UNAM Mexico http://www.iies.unam.mx/ Leonor Solís is responsible for the Environmental Communication Area of the Ecosystems & Sustainability Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her work includes: social media management, photography, video production, journalism and media relations. She... Read more
	Anke Wonneberger Elected Member Term: 2021-2025 Assistant Professor University of Amsterdam Netherlands https://theieca.org I am an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research with a background in Communication and Cultural Science. Being a member of the IECA since... Read more