Leah Stokes
Canadian-American political scientist of climate and energy policy at UC Santa Barbara; co-hosts A Matter of Degrees.
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- Leah Cardamore Stokes is a Canadian-American political scientist who studies the politics of energy, climate and environmental policy.
- She joined the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015 and is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics there.
- She is also a senior policy consultant at Evergreen Action and Rewiring America and worked on the federal push that led to the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
- Her books are Short Circuiting Policy (2020), on utilities and clean-energy laws, and The Carbon Wave (2026), on the Inflation Reduction Act.
- From October 2020 she has co-hosted the podcast A Matter of Degrees with Katharine Wilkinson.
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- Education
- BA, University of Toronto; MPA, Columbia University; master’s and PhD, MIT1
- UC Santa Barbara
- From 2015; Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, as of 20262
- Policy work
- Senior policy consultant at Evergreen Action and Rewiring America1
- Books
- Short Circuiting Policy (2020); The Carbon Wave (release date 1 September 2026)2
- Podcast
- A Matter of Degrees, with Katharine Wilkinson, from October 20201
- Recognition
- Time 100 Next (2022)1
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