Center for Cooperative Media welcomes Catherine Devine as 2024-2025 Civic Science Fellow
Devine will foster collaborations between science professionals and journalists nationwide
Catherine Devine has joined the Center for Cooperative Media as our 2024–2025 Civic Science Fellow, a position generously funded by the Rita Allen Foundation.
The full group of Civic Science Fellows across the country was announced today.
Catherine brings a passion for science communication and community engagement, and we are excited to work with her over the next 18 months.
As part of the prestigious Civic Science Fellows program led by the Rita Allen Foundation, Catherine will focus on building relationships and fostering collaborations between civic-minded science professionals and journalists across the United States.
This program aims to create a network of leaders committed to ensuring that all people shape and benefit from science, technology, and innovation.
Catherine’s background makes her an ideal fit for this role.
She recently completed a 10-month stint as the 2023 Gero Fellow in Science Communication at Schoodic Institute, where she reported on climate change and led community engagement efforts while living in Acadia National Park.
Additionally, Catherine has produced podcasts on various topics, including environmental science, politics, and economics. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in journalism and cognitive psychology from New York University, and her thesis project, “Turning Back the Tide,” a documentary on an oyster-driven climate solutions project, was an NYU Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund award recipient.
During her 18-month fellowship, Catherine will identify science areas in need of journalism cross-collaboration, implement a project to address the science-society gap, and document her findings. She hopes her work will help inform future civic science journalism cross-field collaborations and help build a world in which science is strengthened through connection to diverse issues and perspectives. Catherine will also provide coaching for our civic science grant program.
Our civic science grant program aims to accelerate civic science journalism cross-field collaborations in the United States by providing small grants and coaching. The program aims to cultivate a culture of civic science by supporting projects that utilize science, evidence, and broader community engagement to equitably and effectively address society’s most critical issues.
Please join me in welcoming Catherine to our team and wishing her success in her new role as our Civic Science Fellow.
Joe Amditis is the assistant director of products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. Contact him at amditisj@montclair.edu or on Twitter at @jsamditis.
About the Center for Cooperative Media: The Center is a grant-funded program of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. Its mission is to grow and strengthen local journalism, and in doing so serve New Jersey residents. The Center is supported with funding from Montclair State University, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Democracy Fund, the New Jersey Local News Lab (a partnership of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Democracy Fund, and Community Foundation of New Jersey), and the Abrams Foundation. For more information, visit centerforcooperativemedia.org.
