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Leah Stokes
Stokes testifying before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee in 2021
EducationUniversity of Toronto (BS)
Columbia University (MPA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsEnergy, climate and environmental politics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ThesisPower Politics: Renewable Energy Policy Change in US States (2015)
Doctoral advisorLawrence Susskind

Leah Cardamore Stokes is a Canadian-American political scientist and expert on environmental policy.[1][2] She is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[3] In addition, Stokes is a senior policy consultant at Evergreen Action and Rewiring America, where she helped advance federal climate policy that subsequently became part of the Inflation Reduction Act.[4][5] She also hosts the climate podcast A Matter of Degrees.[6] Her research focuses on political behavior, public opinion, and the politics of energy and environmental policy in the United States. She regularly writes about energy and climate policy for news outlets and on social media.

Early life and education[edit]

Stokes earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and East Asian studies at the University of Toronto.[7] She completed a Master of Public Administration at Columbia University. After graduating, Stokes worked at Resources for the Future. She went on to work at the Parliament of Canada.[8] Her role involved policy analysis for Members of Parliament working on the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee, and the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs. In 2010, Stokes moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned a master's degree and a doctorate under the supervision of Lawrence Susskind. At MIT, Stokes created environmental policy curriculum, including The Mercury Game, a treaty negotiation that has been used by over 100 universities around the world.[9]

Career[edit]

In 2015, Stokes joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on energy policy and environmental policy in the United States.[10] She has investigated the interaction between public opinion and policy making on renewable energy.[11] She has also looked at how the design and presentation of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) changes public support for a particular policy. She has also published research on backlash against renewable energy projects. Her recent work examines Congressional staff and their understanding of public opinion.

Stokes is also a senior policy consultant at Evergreen Action and Rewiring America, where she focuses on federal policy advocacy to address climate change and accelerate electrification. In 2021-2022, she worked on federal climate policy including advising democratic offices in Congress. Policies she worked on subsequently became part of the Inflation Reduction Act, particularly on clean electrification and home electrification.[12] In September 2021, she gave testimony on electrification to the Joint Economic Committee in Congress.[13]

Awards and honours[edit]

Her awards and honours include:

Selected publications[edit]

Her publications include:

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  • Stokes, Leah C. (April 15, 2020). Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States. Oxford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 9780190074265.
  • Hertel-Fernandez, A.; Mildenberger, Matto; Stokes, Leah C. (2019). "Legislative Staff and Representation in Congress". American Political Science Review. 113 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1017/S0003055418000606.
  • Stokes, Leah C.; Breetz, Hanna L. (2018). "Politics in the US energy transition: Case studies of solar, wind, biofuels and electric vehicles policy". Energy Policy. 113: 76–86. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.10.057.
  • Stokes, Leah C.; C., Warshaw (2017). "Renewable energy policy design and framing influence public support in the United States". Nature Energy. 2 (8): 1–6. doi:10.1038/nenergy.2017.107.
  • Stokes, Leah C. (2016). "Electoral backlash against climate policy: A natural experiment on retrospective voting and local resistance to public policy". American Journal of Political Science. 60 (4): 958–974. doi:10.1111/ajps.12220. hdl:1721.1/99561.
  • Stokes, Leah C. (2013). "The politics of renewable energy policies: The case of feed-in tariffs in Ontario, Canada". Energy Policy. 56: 490–500. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.01.009.

Stokes regularly writes for prominent news outlets, including The New York Times[21] The Washington Post,[22] The Boston Globe,[23] The Atlantic,[24] and Vox[25]. She is regularly featured on TV, radio, and other popular media, including NPR, The Ezra Klein Show, BBC World News, ABC News, CNN and PBS Newshour.


In October 2020, Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson started the podcast A Matter of Degrees, in which they discuss the levers of power that have created the climate problem, and the tools to fix it.[26]. In the first two seasons, the show covered a range of topical issues, such as equity in green jobs, climate and gender equality, Indigenous clean energy leadership, farmers and land regeneration in Puerto Rico, and electric utilities.

References[edit]

  1. ^ @leahstokes (January 9, 2020). "I'm Canadian. Thanks" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ @leahstokes (December 17, 2021). "A very happy day for me! After more than a decade living in this country, I'm now an American citizen. Feeling very…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ Stokes, Leah. "About". Leah Stokes.
  4. ^ "Who We Are". Evergreen Action.
  5. ^ "About Us". Rewiring America.
  6. ^ "Listen". A Matter of Degrees.
  7. ^ "Leah Stokes". kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu. September 19, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  8. ^ "Leah C. Stokes". EPIC. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  9. ^ "The Mercury Game". mercurygame.scripts.mit.edu. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  10. ^ "Leah Stokes". Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Bolstering public support for state-level renewable energy policies". MIT News. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  12. ^ Stokes, Leah. "The Electric Explainer: The Inflation Reduction Act". Rewiring America. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  13. ^ "Examining the Economic Benefits of Electrifying America's Homes and Buildings". Joint Economic Committee. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  14. ^ "Martin Fellows, 2013–2014". Main. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  15. ^ "Award Recipients - 2018". www.mpsanet.org. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  16. ^ "David P. Baron Award". Cambridge Core. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  17. ^ "ITIF Energy Innovation Boot Camp for Early Career Scholars". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ^ "This professor wants you to give up your climate guilt". Grist. April 8, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  19. ^ Logan, Jim (August 31, 2020). "Leah Stokes Earns Prestigious Plous Award". University of California - Santa Barbara. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  20. ^ "Energy People of the Year" (PDF). American Energy Society. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  21. ^ Stokes, Leah C. (July 16, 2022). "What Joe Manchin Cost Us". The New York Times. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  22. ^ Stokes, Leah C. (June 7, 2022). "Could the U.S. soon be on track to cut carbon emissions in half?". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  23. ^ Stokes, Leah C. (February 14, 2022). "Build Back Better is about opportunity, not sacrifice". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  24. ^ Stokes, Leah C. (July 14, 2021). "The Infrastructure Bill Won't Cut It on Climate". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  25. ^ Stokes, Leah C.; Ricketts, Sam (February 4, 2021). "This popular and proven climate policy should be at the top of Congress's to-do list". Vox. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  26. ^ "Listen". A Matter of Degrees. Retrieved September 6, 2022.

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