Aissa Linsley-Dearing

Dreaming of a Day After Net Zero: Resisting Carbon Management and Removal in the United States of America

Aissa Linsley-Dearing (she/they) is a PhD candidate from Durham, North Carolina, USA, who studies how climate policies affect communities closest to the land. At the University of Oxford, she works with Black and Indigenous land stewards and frontline in the US to understand how carbon markets and technologies change people’s relations with nature and one another, and how climate policy can enable more radical political transformations from the start.

She has held positions at The White House (Biden-Council on Environmental Quality), as a representative on her local environmental affairs board, as a columnist for JSTOR Daily, as an advisor for an environmental justice consulting firm, as a manager of grant programs within private philanthropy, as a grant making affairs coordinator for a solar developer, and has founded a youth climate organizing organization in her hometown.

She is a Marshall and Clarendon Scholar.