An expert in climate and energy policy, Leah Stokes (she/her) is the author of the award-winning book “Short Circuiting Policy.” She was named to the 2022 TIME100 Next and Business Insider 2022 Climate Action 30 lists. Trained at MIT, Columbia, and the University of Toronto, Leah has been published in top scholarly journals, as well as the New York Times, Washington Post, and other popular media outlets. She is the Anton Vonk associate professor of environmental politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a 2023-24 fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, a senior policy consultant at Rewiring America, and co-host of the climate podcast “A Matter of Degrees.”