Environment Seminar Series: Climate Justice and the University with Dr. Jennie Stephens
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The School of the Environment invites you to virtually attend this seminar led by Dr. Jennie C. Stephens, as part of our 2025-26 Environment Seminar Series.
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About the Seminar
With the worsening climate crisis and intensifying economic inequities, higher education can play a powerful role in addressing the intersecting crises facing humanity. Institutions of higher education hold untapped potential to advance social justice and reduce climate injustices. But universities are not yet structured to accelerate social change for the public good. In this presentation Professor Jennie Stephens invites us to reimagines the potential of higher education to advance human well-being and promote ecological health. Drawing on over thirty years of experience working on the climate crisis within higher education, Stephens offers a provocative and pathbreaking vision of how higher education can accelerate the shift toward more equitable, healthy, and stable futures for all.
About the Speaker
Dr. Jennie C. Stephens (LinkedIn)
Jennie C. Stephens is a feminist climate justice scholar-activist based in Dublin, Ireland. She is Professor of Climate Justice at National University of Ireland Maynooth, and co-convenor of the Climate Justice Universities Union. Her work focuses on transformation toward more just and sustainable futures including exnovation away from fossil fuels, energy justice, and the critical role of universities. She is the author of Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All (Hopkins University Press, 2024) and Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy (Island Press, 2020).