Jen Schneider is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Boise State University, where she teaches and advises in the graduate program, and holds affiliate appointments with the College of Innovation and Design and the Public Policy Research Center, She serves as Associate Director of the Boise State University Experimental program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. She has published widely in the fields of environmental and science communication, energy studies, and engineering studies, including co-authoring the books Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (2010, Morgan and Claypool Publishers) and Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism (2016, Palgrave Macmillan).