April 5, 2023 | 8th Annual UF Climate Communications Summit | University of Florida

April 5, 2023 | 4:00 pm | Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall, University of Florida

The Florida Climate Institute, in partnership with the UF College of Journalism and Communication, is pleased to host Melissa Aronczyk, an Associate Professor of Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. She is the co-author, with Maria Espinoza, of A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism (Oxford University Press, 2022). Her research on how PR affects our ability to communicate about climate change has been featured in The Nation, the Financial Times, Rolling Stone, CNBC, The Intercept, Grist, AdWeek, and Yes Magazine. She has also written stories about PR and sustainability for The Washington Post and Foreign Policy magazine.

The presentation and discussion will be followed by a reception with food and beverages.

Please join us and check out related press below:

The Audacious PR Plot that Seeded Doubt about Climate Change, BBC, 23 July 2022.
How PR Firms Captured the Sustainability Agenda, Foreign Policy, 17 Feb 2022.
PR Worked for Big Oil. Can It Work for Climate Action? Grist, 22 Feb 2022.
Spin Doctors Have Shaped the Environmentalism Debate for Decades,Washington Post, 21 Feb 2021.

The Florida Climate Institute (FCI) is a multi-disciplinary network of national and international research and public organizations, scientists, and individuals concerned with achieving a better understanding of climate variability and change.