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ClimateVoices · Episode 99 · 10-28-26
An interview with Leah Stokes, a leading climate policy advocate and the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at UC Santa Barbara. Her new book The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet is an insider account of what it took to pass a historic climate law in the United States. The book is also a moving memoir of Leah’s personal experience managing a high risk pregnancy and delivering premature twins.
Leah has received numerous awards including Time magazine’s Time100 Next list and Business Insider’s top 30 global climate leaders. A recipient of a Harvard University Radcliffe Fellowship, she is also author of the award-winning book Short Circuiting Policy, which was listed as one of the top five climate books in 2020 by The New York Times. Leah earned her PhD from MIT, a Master’s degree in Environmental Science & Policy at Columbia and her Bachelor’s of Science at the University of Toronto.
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Leah Stokes
Leading climate policy advocate, author, and Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at UC Santa Barbara
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