The International Environmental Communication Association (IECA)

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.

	Richard J. Doherty Chair Term: 2015-2019 Independent Academic and EC practitioner The Earth 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
	Samantha Senda-Cook 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
	Clive Tesar Secretary Term: September 2018-September 2020 proprietor Clive Tesar Consulting Canada https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-tesar-a262a4b/ I've worked across much of the communications spectrum over the years, as a researcher, a journalist, a consultant, and then 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
	Barb Willard Treasurer Term: 2018-2020 Associate Professor Communication Studies, DePaul University United States https://communication.depaul.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/Pages/willard.aspx Prof. Willard’s research focuses on environmental communication. She examines the rhetoric of landscapes as they are both read by and created by humans. Most recently she has been exploring how the transformation of blighted urban areas into farms and community gardens become symbolic sites of... Read more
	Matthew C. Nisbet 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
	Jennifer Good 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
	Gabriele Hadl Elected Member 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
	Hanna E. Morris Appointed Member Term: December 2017-December 2019 Doctoral student Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania United States https://www.asc.upenn.edu/node/4598 Hanna E. Morris is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At Annenberg, Hanna is researching the visual culture of global warming. Her past research focused on deciphering discourses of climate change in United States print and television... Read more
	Nik Norma Nik Hasan Elected Member Term: 2018-2021 Deputy Dean (Academic, Students Affairs & Alumni) School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia Malaysia https://www.usm.my Nik’s areas of specializations are in science and environmental journalism and environmental risk communication. She has undertaken many international collaboration researches with universities within the Southeast Asia region and currently studying on Japan’s Fukushima post disaster risk... Read more
	Geo Takach 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
	Nancy Van Leuven Elected Member Term: 2017-2021 Assistant Professor, MCJ Department California State University Fresno United States https://activistpublicrelations.com/ As a chair of the Membership and Outreach Committee, I'm excited to join IECA's great work during this turbulent time in environmental communication! Most of my work has been in marketing and community development with public and private groups ranging from the International Red Cross to public... Read more
	Ruben Zondervan 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 and science-policy. He is experienced in... Read more
	Leonor Solis Appointed Member Term: 2019-2021 Environmental Communication Unit /Comunicación Ambiental Research Institute of Ecosystems & Sustainability /Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad 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
	Franzisca Weder Vice-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
	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
	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