Barriers and Pathways to Climate Action

Colin Jerolmack is Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at New York University. From 2017 to 2023, he chaired NYU’s Department of Environmental Studies. He received his PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of two books, Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town, and The Global Pigeon.

 

Andrew Jorgenson is a Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Climate & Society Lab at the University of British Columbia. Working in the areas of environmental sociology, global political economy, and the sociology of development, he conducts research on the human dimensions of global and regional environmental change, with a primary focus on the societal causes and consequences of the climate crisis. In 2020, Andrew received the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Environmental Sociology for his innovation, publication, and service in the field of environmental sociology. 

Myron T. Strong is an award-winning sociologist, who is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Community College of Baltimore County in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated with his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Texas in 2014. His research explores Afrofuturism, race, gender and other social factors in modern comics and popular culture. He has published work in academic journals, anthologies, newspapers, encyclopedias. In 2019, he won the Eastern Sociological Society Barbara R. Walters Community College Faculty Award for his article “The Emperor Has New Clothes:​ ​How Outsider Sociology Can Shift the Discipline” published in Sociological Forum.
 

Fernando Tormos-Aponte is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he was a Kendall Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge. He earned his MA and PhD in Political Science from Purdue University, West Lafayette, and a BA from the Universidad de Puerto Rico—Río Piedras. Dr. Tormos-Aponte specializes in social movements, identity politics, social policy, and transnational politics. His research focuses on how social movements cope with internal divisions and gain political influence.