Grant Gutierrez
About Grant's Work
Grant Gutierrez is an applied environmental and climate justice expert, drawing on work across community-based research, public policy, and direct climate advocacy. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Chile, rural northern California, and in Seattle on topics of watershed conservation and Indigenous sovereignty, renewable energy development, superfund remediation, and floodplain restoration. Currently, 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.
Grant is in the deep end of a personal-political love affair with rivers. His childhood in the foothills of the American River watershed has shaped how he shows-up for his work: with an open heart, constant curiosity, and a commitment to find solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Ecology from Dartmouth College and a B.A. in Anthropology with a Special Concentration in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.
Alongside work, he enjoys going down to the riverside, cooking, spending time with his community, doing things with his hands, riding his bike, and laughter.
