Jennie Stephens

Jennie C. Stephens
Born (1975-03-08) March 8, 1975 (age 49)
NationalityAmerican-Irish
Occupation(s)Professor, author, and social justice advocate
AwardsArab-American Frontiers Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences
Leopold Leadership Fellowship, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Academic background
EducationB.A., Environmental Science & Public Policy, Harvard University, 1997
M.S., Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech, 1998
Ph.D., Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech, 2002
Alma materHarvard University
California Institute of Technology
Academic work
InstitutionsNortheastern University
Websitehttps://www.jenniecstephens.com/

Jennie C. Stephens (born March 8, 1975, in Dublin, Ireland) is an academic researcher, professor, author, and social justice advocate. She is Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] She is also affiliated with the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the department of Cultures, Societies & Global Studies.[2]

Stephens has worked extensively on energy system innovation and the societal transformation away from fossil fuel reliance. Her research mainly focuses on renewable energy transformation, energy democracy, energy resilience, gender and energy, climate and energy justice, and climate engineering. She is the author of Diversifying Power: Why We Need Anti-Racist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy,[3] Smart Grid (R)Evolution: Electric Power Struggles, Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History.[4]

  1. ^ "Jennie C. Stephens". College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
  2. ^ "Jennie C. Stephens".
  3. ^ Williams, Jeremy (November 3, 2020). "Book review: Diversifying Power, by Jennie Stephens".
  4. ^ "Book Review: Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science, Society, and Solutions".