I’m glad to share a new publication in Advances in Global Health titled “Counter-Narratives of Urban Hydrocolonialism.”
This essay reflects on the mass water shutoffs in Detroit between 2014 and 2020, during which an estimated 141,000 households lost access to clean drinking water due to unpaid bills.
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Very cool surprise to open today’s National Communication Association (NCA) “Comm Notes” mailing list and see my research article with Christine Nyawaga, PhD, featured in Communication Currents! 🤩 🩷
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I had a very productive and stimulating 5 days at the annual conference of the International Communication Association in Denver, CO. It was wonderful to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and hang out with Wayne State Department of Communication alumni and students! I’m especially grateful to the wonderful folk at ICA’s newly formed Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division for awarding me the Top Faculty Paper Award. ❤️🙏🏾
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I recently joined a stellar interdisciplinary panel for a symposium, organized by the Wayne State University Humanities Center, to talk about Water/Sheds. We from disciplines as disparate as English, Modern Languages, Biological Sciences, Communication, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Art, and we talked about why we did the research we did on the social-environmental impacts of water and watersheds. We also identified some wonderful intersections across our research interests and perspectives, which will hopefully lead to us forming a Working Group under the Humanities Center to continue to this conversation and broaden it even further across the university.
I enjoyed participating in a great conversation this week on Sustainability at Work, hosted by the Wayne State University Office of Economic Development and Office of Campus Sustainability. I gave a short “teaching talk” on why and how communication was central to how different kinds of organizations and workers engage in environmental sustainability, and afterward joined a great panel of industry representatives and scholars talking about opportunities for students to get engaged.
I have a new publication out, with Christine Nyawaga, in the National Communication Association journal Communication and Race. Our research examines how Black workers in STEM fields manage their intersecting social identities on enterprise social media (ESMs), which have become ubiquitous in contemporary workspaces to aid with job-related tasks, such as collaboration, supervision, and tracking workflow.
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