Jennie C. Stephens is a climate justice scholar-activist and feminist researcher. Her work focuses on transformation toward a more just, healthy, and stable future for all. She is Professor of Climate Justice at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and she serves on the coordinating team of the Climate Justice Universities Union. Her research, teaching, and community engagement focus on fossil fuel phaseout, confronting climate obstruction, analysing corporate power, the transformative potential of higher education, and integrating social justice into climate and energy policy. Based on the influence of her research, she is listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists .

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, 201

  • 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

  • Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Fellowship, 2000-2002

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship, 1998-1999

  • Harvard College Research Fellowship and Dean’s Research Award, 1996

  • Pforzheimer Student Fellowship, Radcliffe College, 1994-1995

    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