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Dakota is a PhD student at the University of Vermont’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina, Asheville in environmental management and policy as well as a master’s degree in community development and applied economics from the University of Vermont. Before grad school, Dakota worked for a sustainability consulting firm on topics of green building design, community resilience planning, and articulating the relationships between experience and environment. His master’s research explored the effect of speculative investment on building practices, housing inaccessibility and suburban sprawl as well as the role of land value taxation in redirecting building practices away from speculative rationales. His prospective PhD research will examine the experience of structural inertia and the orchestration of a resigned political subject and naturalized society from a post-humanist perspective.