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Cathy Arnold

Communications & Media Specialist, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes

Cathy Arnold has amassed a 35-year career in communications, public relations, marketing, research and writing. Her first professional forays into science, policy, politics and academic research were in Washington, D.C., with the AAAS Communications Department; Washington College of Law’s Institute for Studies in Justice and Social Behavior at The American University, where she participated in research on victimization and terrorism; a national grass-roots lobbying organization for campaign reform and public financing of elections, headquartered on Capitol Hill, where she served as its associate director; and the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she produced multi-media products and wrote speeches for the agency’s director. Cathy also managed media clients, particularly political campaigns and international labor unions, with two major Washington communications firms and served in the Legal Department of the National Association of Broadcasters.

An Arizona native, Cathy returned to Phoenix and handled communications and community activities for a major trade association and Arizona Theater Company. She came to ASU from Phoenix Art Museum, where, for eleven years, she managed all of the museum’s public relations and media relations activities, and edited all of the museum’s communications. Cathy holds a bachelor’s degree from American University in Interdisciplinary Studies in Children’s Television, a self-designed program focused on media impact on the socialization of children.