Marija Verner

Marija Verner is the Digital Education Manager and Research Specialist at YPCCC. She studies how people around the world understand, experience, and respond to climate change, with a focus on cross-national public opinion, gender and development, and the spatial distribution of climate risks. She also conducts research on Indigenous politics in Latin America, including Indigenous political participation, resentment, and environmental protest. Her research has appeared in World Development, Latin American Politics and Society, European Political Science, Nature Climate Change, Comparative Political Studies, and other scientific journals. In parallel, she co-leads the design and instruction of a professional education program in strategic climate communication for global audiences. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, her M.Sc. in Middle East Politics from SOAS, University of London, and her B.A. in Political Science from Vilnius University.