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Leah Stokes on a chair holding a plant
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Matt Perko
UC Santa Barbara associate professor Leah Stokes researches public policy, public opinion and political behavior, with a focus on energy, environment and climate change.

Leah Stokes receives the prestigious Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication

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Black man with trays of different insects
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Umberto Diecinove
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Jigna Desai - a woman with dark hair and glasses with brown skin
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Jeff Liang
Professor Jigna Desai, director of UCSB's Center for Feminist Futures
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man in sweater with grey white hair inside a black sculpture's shadow
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Debra Herrick
Nelson Lichtenstein
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six women facing the sea with their arms raised in heart hands
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Simona Pilolla
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Two hands in fingerless gloves hold a cardboard house
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Is housing a human right?
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kristen thomas-mcgill white woman with glasses on blue stage
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History doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill on Jeopardy