Deserai Anderson Crow Center for Science and Technology Policy Research 1333 Grandview Avenue UCB 488 Boulder, CO 80309-0488 Tel: 303-735-0451 Fax: 303-735-1576 deserai.crow@colorado.edu

Assistant Professor Deserai Anderson Crow is on the Environmental Studies faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism and affiliated with the Center for Science & Technology Policy Research. She joined the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2008 and moved to the Environmental Studies Program in 2012. Crow earned her PhD from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver’s School of Public Affairs.

Her research interests include environmental policy and the role that mass media and other factors play in policy decisions. She is particularly interested in environmental issues in the western United States. Her current research  includes studies on environmental reporting trends, communication in environmental policymaking, and stakeholder use of environmental messaging strategies. Her previous research focuses on the adoption of non-consumptive recreational water rights by Colorado communities and the factors that influenced policy change within these communities, including mass media, policy entrepreneurs, stakeholder group involvement, and citizen engagement. 

After earning her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder, she worked as a broadcast reporter, anchor, and producer in Nebraska, West Virginia, California, Colorado Springs, and Denver.

Highlighted Publications

Local Science Reporting Relies on Generalists, Not Specialists (2012)

Citizen Engagement in Local Environmental Policy: Information, Mobilization, and Media (2012)

Policy Diffusion and Innovation: Media and Experts in Colorado Recreational Water Rights (2012)

News Coverage and Access to Contextual Policy Information in the Case of Recreational Water Rights in Colorado (2011)

Local Media and Experts: Sources of Environmental Policy Initiation? (2010)

Policy Entrepreneurs, Issue Experts, and Water Rights Policy Change in Colorado (2010)

Policy Punctuations in Colorado Water Law: The Breakdown of a Monopoly (2010)

Responsive Public Officials and Engaged Citizens: Myth or Reality? A Case Study of Water Rights Policy in Colorado (2009)

Stakeholder behavior and legislative influence: A case study of recreational water rights in Colorado (2008)