Donnie Johnson Sackey is an assistant professor of rhetoric & writing in the Department of Rhetoric & Writing at The University of Texas at Austin where he teaches courses in environmental communication, information design, user-experience design, and nonprofit writing. He serves on the steering committee of the Polymathic Scholars Honors Program and the Bridging the Disciplines Smart Cities faculty panel. His research centers on the dynamics of environmental public policy deliberation, environmental justice, and environmental community-based participatory research. His research has previously been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Institute for Population Studies, Health Assessment, Administration, Services and Economics, and the Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors. He previously served on the board of the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition and as a senior researcher with Detroit Integrated Vision for Environmental Research through Science and Engage (DVERSE). Currently, he is a non-resident fellow with the Center on Global Energy Policy’s CarbonTech Development Initiative at Columbia University. His research has appeared in Communication Design Quarterly, Community Literacy Journal, Present Tense, Rhetoric Review, Technical Communication Quarterly, and various edited collections. He is the author of Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space (Ohio State UP 2024).

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