**About the Editors**

#### **Carrie P. Freeman**

Carrie P. Freeman, PhD, is Professor of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta where she researches and teaches environmental communication, critical animal and media studies, and media ethics. Her award-winning books *The Human Animal Earthling Identity* and *Framing Farming* provide advocacy communication strategies for activists. With Dr. Debra Merskin, she co-authored AnimalsandMedia.org to provide style guides for media makers interested in respectful and inclusive representations of nonhuman animals. For over a decade, she has hosted an eco and animal protection radio show and podcast "In Tune to Nature" on Radio Free Georgia, and she has volunteered as a grassroots activist for animal rights groups in three states since the 1990s.

#### **N ´uria Almiron**

Nuria Almiron, PhD is Professor of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona ´ where she researches and teaches on media ethics, critical animal and media studies and interest groups, advocacy and persuasive communication. She is the co-director of UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, an academic think tank that promotes non-speciesist ethical approaches in academia, politics, media and the public opinion. Her work has been published in academic journals such as *Climatic Change*, *Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics*, *Environmental Politics*, *Journalism Studies*, *Environmental Communication*, *International Journal of Communication or European Journal of Communication*. Her latest book is *'Like an animal'. Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering* (coedited with Natalie Khazaal, Brill 2021).
