Secretary General, Humanities for the Environment Global Network (HfE), (http://hfe- observatories.org) with Observatories in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Australia-Pacific, Circumpolar North (Arctic), East-Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, 2017-

Director and Founding Convener, North American Observatory, Humanities for the Environment (HfE), 2013-

President, Arizona State University Faculty Women’s Association (FWA), 2015 – 2016.

Book Series Editor, New Developments in Sustainability and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2017-, https://newdirections.asu.edu/

Book Series Co-editor, with Scott Slovic and Masumi Yuki, Routledge Environmental Humanities, https://www.routledge.com/sustainability/series/REH

Member, Expert Review Committee, “Bridging Barriers: Planet Texas 2050,” University of Texas, Austin, 2017 – 2021

President / Past President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), the largest international environmental humanities organization in the world, 2011-2013

Founder and Head, American Studies Association’s Environment and Culture Caucus (ASA-ECC), 1999-2010.

Editorial Board Member, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 2005 –

Editorial Board Member, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 2011 –

Editorial Board Member, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 2013 –

Editorial Board Member, transFORMATIONS: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 2014 –

Editorial Board Associate, Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities, 2014 –

Editorial Board Member, Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series, Lexington Books, an academic imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2013 – 2016.

Academic Representative, Federal Facilities Working Group, National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, United States Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/swerffrr/ej.htm, 2003 – 2005

Founding co-organizer and member, Diversity Caucus, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), 1999 –