Cynthia Barakatt

Programs Manager
barakatt@bu.edu
617 358 4000

Education

M.E.S., Yale School of Forestry, Yale University; B.Sc. Journalism, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Expertise

Communications and outreach; environmental issues and policy

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Biography

Cynthia Barakatt has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of communications and the environment. She is interested in developing effective methods and strategies for making complex environmental science information easily accessible to non-scientific audiences. She has worked as a communications specialist for two state environmental agencies and a large international environmental consulting firm, and served as an administrator for a university-based environmental research and education center. She also has served as the Director of Training for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, and as the Director of Content Development for the Boston University-based online Encyclopedia of Earth, a collaborative project with the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE).  At the Pardee Center, she oversees the Center’s publications program and helps coordinate special events.