Michael Dorsey | |
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 Dorsey in 2019 | |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (B.S.,Ph.D.) Yale University (MFS) Johns Hopkins University (M.A.) |
| Known for | Sustainability Climate Justice Environmental Justice |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Club of Rome National Academy of Sciences Dartmouth College |
| Thesis | Commercialization of biodiversity: Processes, actors, and contestation in Ecuador, 1536--2001 (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bunyan Bryant |
Dr. Michael K. Dorsey is an environmental scientist, advocate, scholar, and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and principal of Around the Corner Capital, an energy advisory and impact finance platform. He served on the Sierra Club board of directors for 11 years in three periods, as a petition candidate supported by reform-activists known as the John Muir Sierrans. Dorsey has contributed op-eds to theLos Angeles Times andThe Wall Street Journal.[1][2]
Dorsey holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Policy from theUniversity of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. He also holds a Master of Forest Science (M.F.S) fromYale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1996 and an M.A. in anthropology fromJohns Hopkins University in 1998.
Since the late 1980s, Dorsey has worked with firms, non-profits, foundations, governments and a multitude of others on the interplay of multilateral environment policy, finance and economic development matters across theAmericas, Africa, Asia and Europe. In 1991, Dorsey served as a youth delegate to the U.S. First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.[3] In 1992, Dorsey served as the youngestNGO representative on theUnited States Department of State Delegation theEarth Summit inRio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4][5][6][7] In 1993, Dorsey served on the task force forBill Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development.[8] In the mid-1990s Dorsey worked at theAfrican Centre for Technology Studies at the request of the centre's founderCalestous Juma.
After completing his Ph.D., from 2005 to 2012, Dorsey was assistant professor inDartmouth College's Environmental Studies Program and also the Director of the college's Climate Justice Research Project.He was made a member of the Club of Rome in 2013. Dorsey has also been a visiting professor atWesleyan University; inSouth Africa at theUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal and theUniversity of the Witwatersrand; and inSweden and atKTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. InSouth Africa at theUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal and theUniversity of the Witwatersrand Dorsey worked closely and co-published with ProfessorPatrick Bond onclimate justice,environmental racism and problems withemissions trading.[9]
In the late 20th century and early 21st century Dorsey served as Director of theSierra Club.[10] His first two consecutive terms were from 1997 to 2003 as a petition candidate that was nominated through the efforts of reform-activists known as the John Muir Sierrans. Dorsey was appointed and re-elected to the Sierra Club Board of Directors in 2012 (for two years) and 2014 (for a full three-year term). In total he has served eleven years as a Director on the national board of theSierra Club. Dorsey is also a founding member of the San Francisco-basedCenter for Environmental Health, is a member of the Executive Advisory Board ofPlastic Pollution Coalition, and is a co-founding director of the Environmental Leadership Program. In 2017 he was appointed to the board ofFood First.
While he was atDartmouth College, from 2007 to 2008, Dr. Dorsey served as an environmental advisor on theBarack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.[11] In 2010, Dorsey was appointed to the Advisory Committee of theUnited States Environmental Protection Agency. In 2012, Dorsey was re-appointed.
FollowingDartmouth College Dorsey was a visiting professor atWesleyan University. There he collaborated with two former Wesleyan students: Evan Weber and Matthew Lichtash, and obtained a $30,000 grant plus free office space provided by the Sierra Club to draft an ambitious plan for climate action, which was the basis for the incorporation of the US Climate Plan 501(c)(3) nonprofit incorporated in January 2014.[12]
Dorsey is also co-founder and former board member ofIslands First, a multilateral negotiating-capacity-building organization for small island developing states facing disproportionate threats from unfolding climate change; a co-founder of Detroit XPAC, a nonpartisan political action committee whose goal is to help the expats of Detroit and of Michigan connect with their hometowns by collecting contributions and supporting candidates who will revitalizeDetroit in a fiscally and environmentally responsible manner; and U.S. Climate Plan, the predecessor to theSunrise Movement Education Fund, a climate policy advocacy group elevating the national dialogue, engaging the American people, and building political support for real climate policy solutions.[13]
Dr. Dorsey has published dozens of articles on a variety of environment, development andsustainable finance matters. Apartial list of his publications are atGoogle Scholar.
Dorsey has been featured onCNN International,Democracy Now!, andAl Jazeera. His writing has been published inInstitutional Investor, theLos Angeles Times,New Scientist,The New York Times, theOrlando Sentinel,The Sacramento Bee,U.S. News & World Report, andThe Wall Street Journal.[16][17][18]
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