de Onís, Catalina M.

Catalina M. de Onís is a core faculty member in the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College. She teaches courses on Latinx/e communication and environmental communication studies. Her projects take shape in both individual and collaborative forms and include Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico, La justicia ambiental es para ti y para mí/Environmental Justice Is for You and Me, and El poder del pueblo: una lucha colectiva por la vida y el medioambiente documentary.

Selected readings

• Onís, Catalina M. de. Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico. University of California Press, 2021.

• Onís, Catalina M. de, Hilda Lloréns, Mabette Colón Pérez, and Khalil G. García-Lloréns. La justicia ambiental es para ti y para mí/Environmental Justice Is for You and Me, electronic and print bilingual children’s book. Editora Educación Emergente, 2021.

• Onís, Catalina M. de. El poder del pueblo: una lucha colectiva por la vida y el Medioambiente / The Power of the People: A Collective Struggle for Life and the Environment. Co-producer of documentary film in collaboration with director and co-producer José Luis Baerga Aguirre and Puerto Rico-based film crew: https://elpoderdelpueblo.com (Fall 2021).

• Onís, Catalina M. de. “La justicia ambiental es para ti y para mí: Translating Collective Struggles for Environmental and Energy Justice in Puerto Rico’s Jobos Bay Communities.” Frontiers in Communication, Special issue: Communication, Race, and Outdoor Spaces, Nov. 2021, pp. 1-19, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.723999.

• Onís, Catalina M. de. “Energy Colonialism Powers the Ongoing Unnatural Disaster in Puerto Rico.” Frontiers in Communication, Special Issue: Energy Democracy, vol. 3, 2018, pp. 1-5.