Aissa Dearing is a doctoral candidate in Geography and the Environment from North Carolina, USA, working at the nexus of carbon governance, environmental justice, anticolonial thought, and land histories. They work with Black and Indigenous land-stewarding communities in the USA to understand how interactions with the public-private carbon procurement mechanisms have affected relationalities with nature and the surrounding community. They build upon this work to further understand how anticolonial pedagogies can work to create a theory of change for carbon governance more broadly, utilizing scenario planning and systems dynamics modeling techniques.
Outside of Oxford, they write a monthly column ‘Unearthing Justice’ available on JStor Daily on all things environmental justice. They hold a B.A. in History and B.S. in Environmental Sciences from Howard University in Washington D.C., and a MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford.
