My research is focused on environmental and crisis communications, with a specific focus on publics and how communities heal after natural disasters, specifically wildfires. My research is motivated by my upbringing in British Columbia, Canada, which has seen some of the largest and most devastating wildfires in recent history. I want to be able to help communities that have been devastated by fires and support local and federal government disaster recovery programs.

Conference Presentations

Rhetoric Society of America

Paper Title: Rebuilding Narrative Through Metaphors of Fire: Tending to Rhetorical In/Dignities
ARSTM-RSA
Paper Title: Whose Impact Counts? Rhetorical and Technical Constructions of Post-Wildfire Recovery in the Lahaina and Black Saturday Reports

UNLV Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum
Paper Title: Rallying Around a Wildfire

2018 Western States Communication Association Conference
Paper Title: Rallying Around a Wildfire
Paper Title: Traumatic Brain Injuries and Identity