Name:	Emma Johnson , Ph.D. Candidate
Education:	UCSD: PhD student in Communication and Science Studies, 2004-present. Brown University: BA with honors in Art/Semiotics, 1997
Research Interests:	Emma’s research is centered on ideas and practices of sustainable production and consumption, coalition building around these issues, and the connection to strategies that are being used to define and maintain local cultures and economies within a global context. Emma is a participant in the interdisciplinary Science Studies Program (http://sciencestudies.ucsd.edu/), and she is a fellow at the NSF-funded IGERT program at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/). Emma also has a background and interest in video and film production, and looks forward to experimenting with ways to use that to complement and perhaps even call into question some of her more traditional academic work.
Conference Presentations:	“In Space, NASA Can Hear You Scream” co-authored with Robert Lecusay, at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting, Pasadena, CA, October 2005.
Background:	Emma grew up in New York City and lived there until her move to San Diego. She made her living as a motion picture camera assistant and worked on many illustrious projects destined for television and theatrical release. She has also done other things for money: she was the programs coordinator for Franklin Furnace (and avant-garde arts organization), she was an art teacher in a free drop-in outdoor recreation program in Battery Park City, and she was an assistant to a fabric designer and writer. For four years Emma was a lead organizer for a neighborhood-based Community Supported Agriculture Group (CSA) serving over 100 households in the mixed-income Inwood and Washington Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan. In San Diego, Emma has worked with Sushi Performance and Visual Art.