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Dr. Talbot Andrews is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University and cofounder of the Energy & Elections Lab. Her work focuses on how institutions, the media, and the physical environment shape policy preferences and behavior related to climate change. She uses a combination of incentivized experiments, public opinion data, and formal theory to answer questions such as: How do we govern emerging mitigation technologies? What are the determinants of support for costly mitigation, adaptation, and disaster relief policy? What are the electoral consequences of expanding renewable energy infrastructure? Her work has been published in outlets including Nature Climate Change, The Journal of Politics, and Global Environmental Change. Dr. Andrews holds a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University.

Dr. Gloria Y.A. Ayee is a Lecturer at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow with the IARA Project at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a faculty associate with the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ayee is a political scientist with expertise in behavior and identity politics, and race and ethnic politics. Her research interests center on human rights, transitional justice, truth and reconciliation commissions, race and civil rights policy, political reconciliation, climate justice, and politics and popular culture. Dr. Ayee holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Master's degrees in Political Science and Liberal Studies from Duke University.

Dr. Alicia Cooperman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. Her research focuses on environmental politics and policymaking, civil society, and local politics and accountability. Her broader research agenda studies the politics of natural disasters, natural resource management, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Recent projects examine the role of community organizing in improving household water security and adaptation to climate change in a variety of contexts, including Northeast Brazil, colonias in El Paso County, and along the Texas Gulf Coast. Dr. Cooperman holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of International Affairs from UC San Diego's School of Global Policy & Strategy.

Dr. Daniel Driscoll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the political economy of climate policy implementation, carbon taxes and pricing, climate justice, environmental and social movements, the United States and EU regions, and mixed methods. Dr. Driscoll holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC San Diego.

Dr. Federica Genovese is a political scientist based in the UK. Her research focuses on various international and political economy aspects of the climate crisis. Her work has been supported by the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust, and the International Balzan Prize, among others. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership award on climate vulnerability. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Konstanz.

Dr. Geoffrey Henderson is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy and Planning at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. His research springs from the question of how to make democracy work better in the context of large-scale environmental problems, primarily climate change. His work considers how civic organizations and social movements stimulate political participation and form coalitions, with a focus on the climate justice movement. He has studied efforts to engage people in small-dollar campaign finance and environmental activism, how environmental attitudes affect behavior, and how Members of Congress learn their constituents' opinions. His current research examines state- and federal-level coalitions of environmental and labor groups advocating policies to address climate change. Dr. Henderson holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara.

Dr. Michael Lerner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Michael studies comparative environmental politics with a broad interest in the challenges and strategies related to adopting timely policy responses to environmental change. His research focuses primarily on policy advocacy, including corporate lobbying on climate change, transnational advocacy networks, and the innovation and diffusion of environmental policy. Michael has published his work in the American Journal of Political Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and other peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Lerner holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.