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Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2002) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Culture in the  in the  at the . She is author of Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice (University of Alabama Press, 2007), which won four book awards, including the Jane Jacobs Book Award from the Urban Communication Foundation. Pezzullo also has coauthored with Robert Cox Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, 4th Ed. (Sage, 2016), edited Cultural Studies and the Environment, Revisited (Routledge, 2010), and coedited Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to Environmental Movements with Ronald Sandler (MIT Press, 2007). In 2015, Pezzullo served as the head of the International Environmental Communication Association’s Climate Negotiations Working Group at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)/COP21. She has served on and consulted with the American Bar Association’s Environment, Energy, and Resources committee, the Sierra Club’s national Environmental Justice Committee, and city planning departments on climate justice. She also serves as Director of  and is a founding member of the .

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