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Alexandra Phillips

Assistant Teaching Professor

Alexandra A Phillips is an assistant teaching professor in environmental communication at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. Here, she runs the communications focus for the Masters of Environmental Science and Management program. She also researches the effectiveness of science communication to students, the public, and policymakers. Although Alex is an oceanographer and geoscientist by training, she is also a professional photographer and graphic designer passionate about making environmental science communication more beautiful and impactful. She holds a BA in biology from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and a PhD in Geochemistry from Caltech. Before joining the Bren faculty, she completed a postdoc at the Large Lakes Observatory and worked as a professional science communicator at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Alex was also the first AAAS congressional fellow in climate science, where she spent a year on environmental policy for US Senator Alex Padilla.