Expertise
Animal Rights and Welfare, Compassionate Conservation for Wild Animals, Environmental Communication, Activist Communication Strategies, Vegan Food Studies, Media Ethics, Media Studies
Bio
Dr. Carrie Freeman is a professor of communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Focusing on the cultural route to social change through media, she studies representation and strategic communication for activists, specializing in food and vegan issues, animal rights and environmental protection, along with media ethics and values-based moral messaging. She’s currently working on a wildlife coexistence book in UNESCO World Heritage Site regions to support compassionate conservation and Half-Earth biodiversity initiatives. Her award-winning books include "The Human Animal Earthling: Shared Values Unifying Human Rights Animal Rights & Environmental Movements"(UGA, 2020) and "Framing Farming: Communication Strategies for Animal Rights" (Brill, 2014). She co-authors the first media style guidelines for animal representation at https://animalsandmedia.org/. Since 2010, she’s co-hosted "In Tune to Nature," an eco radio program and podcast on Radio Free Georgia. Active in the grassroots animal rights movement since the 1990s, she serves as faculty adviser for GSU’s student animal rights club. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication & Society from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Georgia and a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Florida.