Grant Gutierrez, Phd Email & Phone Number

Environmental & climate justice practitioner with experience in applied research, public policy, and direct climate action & community advocacy. Strategic leader focused on outcomes-based approaches that promote more just futures for frontline communities.Broadly, I have spent the last decade focused on the environmental justice dimensions of climate change adaptation and ecological restoration, specifically focused on river systems and watershed management. I have collaborated - both internationally and domestically - with climate justice movements around topics of renewable energy development, watershed conservation, floodplain restoration, and superfund remediationIn my current role at Carbon Direct, I help drive the firm's science advisory work on environmental and climate justice to ensure that carbon management and removal do not reproduce the harms of the past. I am committed to community power-building, equitable development, curiosity before critique, and centering relationships in my work.I bring a deeply rooted passion for environmental education and collective action. I am an adept communicator, facilitator, and team-builder that thrives on a balance of optimism and pragmatism. As a queer Latino with a multidisciplinary background, I strive to integrate diverse systems of knowledge as a centerpiece of collaboration.