My research in advocacy and activism includes research on the development of environmental community, global justice movements, and pedagogical practice. Embodied rhetorics of activism and advocacy are discursive and aesthetic practices that reshape, and deconstruct our understanding of public space and create a sense of place and community. I’m particularly interested in how activist communities evolve and respond to changing environmental exigencies.

• Reclaiming public space: Building sustainable communities through guerrilla gardening. Environmental Communication and Community: Constructive and Destructive Dynamics of Social Transformation (2016).

• It’s a party not a protest: Environmental community, co-incident performance, and the San José Bike Party. The world a stage: Performance on behalf of the environment (2013).

• Media activism for global justice: Globalization, social movements and community media. Understanding community media (2009).

• Engaging globalization through local community activism: A model for activist pedagogical practice. Active voices: Composing a rhetoric for social movements (2008).

• Communicating community: Engaging Silicon Valley through student activism. Research advocacy and political engagement: Multidisciplinary perspectives on enduring societal issues (2008).

• Bridging the Internet divide: An analysis of the changing nature of the political communication of MoveOn.org. Iowa Journal of Communication (2004).

• Global justice movement networks: New technology and the mobilization of civil society. Controversia: An International Journal of Debate and Democratic Renewal (2004).

• Environmental sovereignty discourse of the Brazilian Amazon: National politics and the globalization of indigenous resistance. Journal of Communication Inquiry (2003).

• Whose public sphere? The party and the protests of America 2000. Representing resistance: Media, civil disobedience and the global justice movement (2003).