Dr. Robin Leichenko

Rutgers University

Robin Leichenko is Professor of Geography at Rutgers University and co-Director of the Rutgers Climate Institute. Her current research explores the economic and equity impacts of climate change in New York and New Jersey. Leichenko was co-chair of the Community Equity Working Group of the Third New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), and she is currently serving as co-chair of the Fourth NPCC. Leichenko has authored or co-authored three books and more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her book, Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures, co-authored with Karen O'Brien (2008, Oxford University Press), won the Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution from the American Association of Geographers. Her latest book is titled Climate and Society: Transforming the Future (Polity Press, 2019) and is also co-authored with Karen O'Brien.