Christine Shearer, PhD, is a Research Manager at the Climate Imperative Foundation, where she analyzes initiatives and identifies policies that most effectively meet energy and climate goals. Christine previously worked as a program director for Global Energy Monitor, tracking and analyzing global energy systems and their climate impacts. She also worked as a postdoctoral scholar in Earth System Science at the University of California in Irvine and was a research fellow at Project Drawdown and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Her peer-reviewed research has appeared in publications such as AGU Advances and Earth's Future, and she is author of Kivalina: A Climate Change Story (Haymarket Books, 2011).