Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication: Changemakers Respond to Ecological Crises

Castro-Sotomayor, José: - José Castro-Sotomayor is an assistant professor of environmental communication at California State University Channel Islands. His work delves into the environmental and intercultural dynamics of policy development and community building. As a community-based research faculty fellow at CSUCI, he designs and implements identity-based participatory communication models for environmental conflict resolution. He coedited the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020), which received the Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award from the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He serves on editorial boards of several journals in the communication field, including Frontiers in Communication, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Environmental Communication. He is part of the Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects, a University of California-California State University network dedicated to advancing K-12 climate literacy initiatives in California, and with the Beach Sustainability Assessment he works on interdisciplinary projects that address beach accessibility justice in California.