One for All and All for One: The Rhetoric of Climate Change and Sustainability

Tarla Rai Peterson holds the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife Conservation and Policy at Texas A&M University, where she is a professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. She is the editor of Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology. Her research focuses on the intersections between communication, environmental policy, and democracy. She will discuss the rhetorical strategies of 1Sky, a coalition dedicated to building a national movement for a set of comprehensive policies addressing climate change. Peterson earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington State University. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.