Prof. Jennie C. Stephens is my guest on episode 47 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
Jennie is an educator, a social justice advocate, an energy expert, and a sustainability science researcher. She is Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is also the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, Director of Strategic Research Collaborations at the Global Resilience Institute, and a member of the Executive Committee of Northeastern’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. She has written on this topic for professional and mainstream media including Science and the Wall Street Journal. Her latest book is Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy.
Professor Stephens was a 2015-2016 Leopold Leadership fellow, and her book “Smart Grid (R)Evolution: Electric Power Struggles” (Cambridge University Press, 2015) explores social and cultural debates about energy system change (co-authored with Wilson & Peterson). Before coming to Northeastern, Professor Stephens was on the faculty at the University of Vermont (2014-2016) and Clark University (2005-2014). She did post-doctoral research at Harvard’s Kennedy School and she has taught courses at Tufts, Boston University, and MIT. She earned her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in Environmental Science & Engineering and her BA at Harvard University in Environmental Science and Policy.
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00:00 - Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate & Energy
01:23 - Introduction of Inside Ideas guest Prof. Jennie C. Stephens
05:12 - UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
07:00 - How have you weathered the Pandemic?
07:40 - Technology and social innovation
09:00 - Intersecting crises Leadership denying the Climate Crisis
10:35 - Time of disruption opportunities emerge
11:00 - Personal experience during the Pandemic
14:00 - Virtual book launch Diversifying Power: A call to action
19:15 - US election, Kamala Harris, optimist and hopes for excluded people
21:05 - Mobilization of the youth The Sunrise Movement
24:00 - Leadership Climate isolationism technocrat energy democracy
29:05 - Polluter Elite strategically investing in misinformation campaigns
30:30 - Maslow’s hierarchy the basic needs of humanity
32:50 - Chapter 1: Growing the squad, Climate Energy, Antiracist, Empowering women and girls
35:55 - Anyone can embrace antiracist feminist leadership/principles
37:30 - Representation matters diversity. Women, people of colors, indigenous peoples
43:45 – Empowering women and girls, why it is so important The research on Diversity
50:05 - Do you feel that you’re a Global Citizen? A world without borders nations
51:25 - Solidarity across countries is powerful
54:10 - The burning question WTF What is The Future
54:30 - Big Social Transformations happen through disruption
58:50 - The importance of Resilience
1:07:30 - Sustainable takeaway Advocate for System Change
1:08:17 - Leverage Collective Power
1:09:00 - Understanding Power Dynamics
