Jesse Strecker

Jesse Strecker

Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group

Jesse Strecker completed his MPP at the Goldman School for Public Policy, and is currently a PhD student at the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) where he studies the political economy of sustainability transitions with a focus on the role of unions and social movements in the politics of climate change, energy, and decarbonization. He has worked in climate and labor advocacy for nearly fifteen years, serving as the Executive Director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, a Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator Ed Markey, and a Senior Fellow at Data For Progress. Jesse is the great-grandson of coal miners and a proud, resilient river rat, having grown up by the Russian River in Sonoma County, near the site of some of the most destructive wildfires in California's history.