Jennie C. Stephens

Jennie C. Stephens is a climate justice scholar, activist, and author. She is Professor of Climate Justice at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern University's policy school in Boston. In 2023-2024 she was a Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow at Harvard University. Her book “Climate Justice and the University" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) reimagines the transformative power of higher education and reclaims universities as institutions with potential to advance climate justice, accelerate fossil fuel phaseout, and support systemic, structural, social and economic change for a more stable, healthy and prosperous future for all. In her book Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy (Island Press, 2020), she argues that the climate crisis requires diversifying leadership and redistributing wealth and power to move beyond narrow, masculine, technocratic “solutions” toward a more integrated, holistic transformative climate justice approach. Before joining Maynooth University in Ireland, Professor Stephens taught at Northeastern University in Boston, University of Vermont and Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in the USA. She earned her PhD at the California Institute of Technology in environmental science & engineering and her BA at Harvard in environmental science & public policy. www.jenniecstephens.com