Jennie C. Stephens is a climate justice scholar-activist working toward transformation toward more just and healthy futures for all. She is Professor of Climate Justice at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. She is on the coordinating team of the Climate Justice Universities Union, and she leads the Transformative Climate Justice research Team at Maynooth’s ICARUS Climate Research Center in the Geography Department. Her research, teaching, and community engagement focus on exnovation away from fossil fuels, confronting climate obstruction, analysing corporate power, reclaiming higher education for the public good, and integrating social justice into climate and energy policy. She is a Global Affiliate of the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont, and frequently contributes commentaries to newspapers including the Irish Times and The Irish Examiner. She moved back to Ireland in 2024 after living in the United States.

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Recent Publications

Do Women have an AI Problem? Irish Examiner. June 2026

Climate Justice Calls for a Fairer, Healthier, More Stable Future. Irish Times. June 2026.

Artificial Intelligence spells a real climate disaster. Irish Times, May 2026

Tale of Two Discourses: Fossil Fuel Funding in UK and US University Policy vs Public Debate. Climatic Change, April 2026

Time has Come for Exnovation Away from Fossil Fuels,Irish Times, April 2026

Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action,Energy, Sustainability & Society. 2026

Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petromasculinity.‍ ‍Irish Times, Feb 2026

Awards and Fellowships

  • Listed in World’s Top 2% Scientist Ranking, September 2025

  • Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellowship at Harvard, 2023-2024

  • Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, 2016

  • Research Leadership Development Initiative, Northeastern, 2016-2017

  • Leopold Leadership Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute of Environmental, 2015-2016

  • Faculty Community Engagement Award, Colleges of the Worcester Consortium, March 2013

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of International Development, Community, & Environment (IDCE), Clark University. May 2011

  • US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1999-2002

    Education

    • Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2002),  Environmental Science & Engineering

    • M.S. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (1998),  Environmental Science & Engineering

    • B.A. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1997),  Environmental Science & Public Policy