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Aissa Dearing

Aissa Dearing

Aissa Dearing (they/she) is an environmental justice activist and a PhD student at the University of Oxford, studying climate solutions at the nexus of food sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and carbon drawdown. She is from Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Demonstrators from from over 30 environmental organizations rally supporters for transit and environmental justice during the 2022 Earth Day Strike organized by the Sunrise Movement of Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers for Transit Justice at the City County Building on April 22, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Reading Lists

Toward Environmental Justice: Key Concepts

Environmental justice results from the equitable distribution of environmental benefits and harms through the restructuring of systems of oppression.
In August 2018, outside the Swedish parliament building, Greta Thunberg started a school strike for the climate.
Science & Technology

Should We Just Listen to the Scientists?

Looking beyond the science of climate change may allow for a more nuanced approach to the growing global crisis.

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