I’m an Associate Professor of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I study how people come to know and believe what they can’t observe for themselves, especially in science and the environment. Much of that knowing now happens through images, data, objects, and, increasingly, AI. From community-made art to AI-generated imagery, my work asks how visual evidence shapes public trust, risk perception, and decision-making as our environment and technologies change. To answer these questions, I combine experiments, visual analysis, and community-engaged research.