Caron Chess

Caron Chess (Ph.D., State University of New York; M.S. University of Michigan) is an associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University (USA) and director of the university’s Center for Environmental Communication. Her research specialties are risk communication and public participation, particularly the organizational factors that affect environmental outreach efforts. Dr. Chess spent three years as the Right-to-Know coordinator for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and has served on the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Risk Characterization, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, and Committee on NIH Research-Priority Setting. She has co-authored two widely used publications: Improving Dialogue with Communities: A Short Guide to Government Risk Communication and Communicating with the Public: Ten Questions Environmental Managers Should Ask, which the Society for Risk Analysis rated number one on its must-read list for industry communicators.

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