Clausell Stokes

Through his advocacy work at Ceres, Clausell Stokes co-organized more than 200 business-lawmaker engagements representing companies with $750 billion in annual revenue to protect critical climate investments in the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

He has led Ceres’ agriculture policy advocacy since 2023 through its Climate-Smart and Healthy Soils Working Group, facilitating more than 40 high-level meetings between corporate leaders, Congress, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the White House to promote voluntary climate-smart agricultural incentives. 

Stokes co-founded Ceres’ Businesses for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture working group, which includes two dozen corporations including McDonald’s, Nestlé and Keurig Dr Pepper. He draws on their collective influence  — and those of their farmers — to institutionalize regenerative agriculture and farmer-centric voluntary, incentive-based conservation programs that reduce emissions, mitigate climate change, strengthen supply chains and improve agricultural resilience as a necessary pillar in U.S. policymaking.

Stokes has an undergraduate degree in chemistry.