Who Are We?
Director
Hunter Vaughan is an environmental media scholar and cultural historian focusing on the relationship between media technologies, social justice, and the environment. Dr. Vaughan is the author of Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (2019), co-editor of Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis (with Pietari Kääpä, 2022). He is a founding editor (with Meryl Shriver-Rice) of the Journal of Environmental Media, is Co-Director (with P. Kääpä) of the Global Green Media Network, and co-primary investigator (with Nicole Starosielski) on the Internet Society Foundation-funded Sustainable Subsea Networks grant project.
Emerson Advisory Board
We are grateful to our volunteer Advisory Board members, from the Emerson campus and the international community, for their support in building out our local and global bridges, and for contributing to the EEMI’s event planning, guest speakers, and research exchanges.
De-Nin Lee
A specialist in the history of Chinese art, De-nin Lee focuses her research on landscape imagery and environmental concerns. She is editor of Eco-Art History in East and Southeast Asia, and her ecocritical work has been published in Verge, Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective, and Methods for Ecocritical Art History.
Kathryn Ramey
Kathryn Ramey (1967), Vancouver, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology working exclusively in alternative and silver based film processes focusing on ecologically sensitive and waste-reducing practices and pointing the way to a sustainable future for the art form. Believing that art is a gift best when shared, she leads workshops and publishes articles and books on alternative film techniques, working to manifest radical empathy through a love of making and sharing gritty, artisanal, experimental film form.
Lina Giraldo
Lina Maria Giraldo is an installation artist and researcher whose practice-based inquiry is rooted in participatory process — advocating for the democratization of AI and data through community input and creative practice to advance environmental equity, building public works that put data literacy and creative agency directly into the hands of the communities most affected by these systems.
Undergraduate Fellows
A key purpose of the EEMI is to support student interest in and visibility for environmental media, sustainable production, and environmental justice. Every semester the EEMI employs Undergraduate Fellows to assist in the organization and hosting of events, to curate our social media, and to help mediate our network with local communities and global scholars.
Riley Miller
2025 – 26′
Riley is a writer, director, and filmmaker who works not only as a sustainability leader in her film work, but aims to tell stories with deeper meanings of environmental justice. She serves as the Vice President of Philanthropy for her sorority, Alpha Epsilon Phi, and worked to include sustainable programming as part of her and her successor’s duties. She served as one of the 2025 Orientation Coordinator’s for the college, and solidified Orientation as a Green Sealed Event.
Nora Gibbons
2026
Nora is a documentary filmmaker with a passion for environmental justice stories and capturing the natural world. On set, she works as a DP, producer, and sustainability leader! Nora inherited her love for sustainability and the environment from her parents and grandparents while growing up in Missouri, working in community supported agriculture and hiking every chance she got.
Grace Clancy
2026
Grace is a director and documentarian who is passionate about telling stories centered on environmental and social justice. Growing up in a beach town, she has witnessed firsthand the effects of the climate crisis, while also recognizing the importance of hope and action. Both on and off her student sets, she implements sustainable practices and advocates for individual change to create a positive environmental impact.