Editor. Writer. Researcher. Audience and context specialist.
My work as an environmental consultant and regulator helped inspire my research in risk communication. I am also interested in the rhetoric of science, environmental rhetoric, and communication via the Web, particularly as each relates to risk communication and access to information. To read about my scholarship, please visit my Academia.edu profile.
We’re revamping the Service Learning Opportunities in Technical Communication (SLOT-C) Database, a resource Jo Mackiewicz and I designed to connect instructors and students in our discipline to nonprofits who need related service learning work.
Before I received my PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University, I earned a BA in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. My background also includes graduate studies in anthropology. Among other things, I have climbed smoke stacks and water towers; been a responder to chemical spills; sampled drinking water, waste water, and air; excavated a pit house; analyzed faunal remains and tree cores; and worked in a dermestid beetle lab where beetles ate the flesh from bones.