About this speaker
A feminist, climate justice scholar-activist, writer, social-justice advocate and collaborator, Jennie Stephens is Professor of Climate Justice at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Before joining Maynooth, she was a Climate Justice Fellow at Harvard-Radcliffe (2023-2024), faculty at Northeastern University, the University of Vermont (2014-2016) and Clark University (2005-2014). Her research, teaching, and community engagement focus on integrating transformative social justice, feminist, anti-racist perspectives into climate and energy policy, social and political aspects of fossil fuel phaseout and the renewable energy transition, energy democracy, gender in energy and climate, and climate justice in higher education. She has published several books and in Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future For All (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming in Dec 2024) she proposes a paradigm shift to reimagine and restructure higher education to facilitate transformative social change toward a more just, healthy and stable future for all.
