Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Justice at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Endorsement:
The University of Alberta Climate Action Plan is impressive in scope and ambition. Not only does the plan center climate justice and indigenous knowledge, but it focuses on the urgent need for fossil fuel phaseout.
Bio:
I am a feminist climate justice scholar-activist and the author of the new book Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All (Johns Hopkins University Press, December 2024). I am also on the coordinating team of the Climate Justice Universities Union which is an international collective advocating for and strategizing about transformative change in higher education to leverage the power of universities to advance climate justice and move society toward a more stable, healthy and equitable future.