Cynthia Barakatt
Communications Specialist
barakatt@bu.edu
617 353 8828
Education
M.E.S., Yale School of Forestry, Yale Univeristy; B.Sc. Journalism, California Polytechnic State Univeristy, San Luis Obispo
Expertise
Communications, training and outreach
Biography
Cynthia Barakatt has more than 20 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. A former journalist, 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. From 2003 through 2007, she served as the Director of Training for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program . In addition to her work with the Pardee Center, Cynthia currently is the Director of Content Development for the Boston University-based Encyclopedia of Earth, a component of the National Council for Science and the Environment’s Earth Portal.