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Adrienne Russell

July 14, 2025

New UW course connects the climate crisis to communications and design

A blue and green cover of a zine created for a climate communications course. The cover reads "What do design and communication have to do with the climate crisis? It's complicated. But it's worth thinking about."

“Communications & Design for the Environment,” a Communication Leadership course held for the first time this spring, University of Washington professors Adrienne Russell and Dominic Muren teach students how to examine the climate crisis and environmental problems from a perspective beyond the hard sciences.

September 11, 2023

Q&A: New book examines intersection between climate and information crises

A pile of garbage on the beach behind a laptop computer, which has a hand holding a globe on the screen.

Adrienne Russell, professor of communication at the University of Washington, examines in her new book how journalism, activism, corporations and Big Tech battle to influence the public about climate change.