Grant Gutierrez, PhD

Dr. Gutierrez is an applied environmental & climate justice expert, drawing on work across community-based research, public policy, and direct climate advocacy. Trained as a political ecologist, he has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with climate justice movements in Chile, rural northern California, and the Puget Sound on topics of watershed conservation and Indigenous sovereignty, renewable energy development, superfund remediation, and floodplain restoration. Alongside his work at Carbon Direct, he is affiliate faculty at the School of Environmental & Forest Sciences at the University of Washington, where he teaches and conducts research on the environmental justice dimensions of climate change adaptation. 

Prior to joining Carbon Direct, Grant served as an environmental justice policy practitioner in state and local government in Washington, where he led efforts to implement landmark environmental justice laws and uplift BIPOC community voice in government policy.