Donnie Johnson Sackey is currently an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of Rhetoric & Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in environmental communication, information design, and user-experience design. His research examines the dynamics of environmental public policy deliberation, environmental justice, and community-based participatory research, with particular attention to how communication practices shape civic engagement and policy outcomes.  At UT Austin, he serves on the steering committee of the Polymathic Scholars Honors Program and contributes to the Bridging the Disciplines Smart Cities faculty panel. He is also a non-resident fellow with the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. His scholarship has appeared in Communication Design Quarterly, Community Literacy Journal, Present Tense, Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, and several edited collections. His forthcoming book, Undermining Risk and Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis (SUNY UP), will be available in July 2026.