Ross Kenyon

Seattle, Washington, United States
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Climate tech leader with deep experience in bringing innovative carbon removal solutions…

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  • Climate Workers Anonymous

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Volunteer Experience

  • Greentown Labs Graphic

    Mentor

    Greentown Labs

    - Present 4 months

    Environment

    I am mentoring one team in the Go Build 2026 Accelerator.

    Greentown Labs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit accelerating climatetech innovation for the planet, people, and prosperity. As the world’s largest climatetech and energy startup incubator, Greentown catalyzes ecosystems to provide entrepreneurs mission-critical access to labs, equipment, customers, capital, talent, community, and resources for business and leadership growth. Greentown is home to more than 250 startups and has supported…

    I am mentoring one team in the Go Build 2026 Accelerator.

    Greentown Labs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit accelerating climatetech innovation for the planet, people, and prosperity. As the world’s largest climatetech and energy startup incubator, Greentown catalyzes ecosystems to provide entrepreneurs mission-critical access to labs, equipment, customers, capital, talent, community, and resources for business and leadership growth. Greentown is home to more than 250 startups and has supported more than 675 since its founding in 2011; these startups, with a survival rate of 88 percent, have collectively created more than 16,600 jobs and raised more than $12.5B in funding.

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    Community Advisory Committee

    Simons Searchlight

    - Present 1 year 7 months

    Health

    Simons Searchlight studies genes that cause rare neurodevelopmental disorders. The study is international, and families can participate in several languages.

  • Climate Collective Graphic

    Mentor

    Climate Collective

    - Present 1 year 4 months

    Environment

    I mentored one team in the 2025 AI Climate Cohort, and gave a presentation on my founder experience.

  • Third Derivative Graphic

    Mentor

    Third Derivative

    - Present 1 year 5 months

    Environment

    I am in the mentor pool for startups in the accelerator program.

    Third Derivative (D3) is a global climate tech ecosystem and innovation engine that accelerates startups and moves markets.

  • Cleantech Open Graphic

    Mentor

    Cleantech Open

    - Present 1 year 5 months

    Environment

    I mentored one company in the 2025 Cleantech Open Accelerator Program.

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    Carbon Removal Challenge Judge

    The OpenAir Collective

    - Present 1 year 5 months

    Environment

    I was a judge in the 2025 and 2026 OpenAir Collective Carbon Removal Challenges.

  • Brinc Graphic

    Mentor

    Brinc

    - 1 year 2 months

    Environment

    Mentored one of the startups in the winter 2024-2025 batch of the Climate Tech Accelerator.

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    Guide to Those Seeking a Climate Career

    OpenDoorClimate

    - Present 1 year 11 months

    Environment

    I maintain pro bono space in my calendar to help those looking to find a career in climate.

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    Moderator

    Never Search Alone

    - 6 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Leading our Job Search Committee through the methodology to get to Candidate-Market Fit and find new and fulfilling employment.

Publications

  • The Carbon Removal Blended Tonne White Paper

    Nori

    Coauthored a paper on how to conceivably combine fast and slow carbon cycle tonnes with overlapping timelines to negate current fossil emissions with the future delivery of durable carbon removal.

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  • Nori White Paper

    Nori

    I am the principal coeditor and a writer of the Nori white paper, which is more than seventy pages of Nori's approach to environmentalism, carbon removal, technical documentation, and go-to market strategy.

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  • Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition

    Palgrave Macmillan

    This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysis―often associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. Liberal class analysis emphasizes the constitutive connection between state power and class position. Social Class and State Power documents the rich tradition of liberal class theory, its rediscovery in the twentieth century, and the…

    This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysis―often associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. Liberal class analysis emphasizes the constitutive connection between state power and class position. Social Class and State Power documents the rich tradition of liberal class theory, its rediscovery in the twentieth century, and the possibilities it opens up for research in the new millenium.

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  • Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics (1638-1660), 7 volumes.

    Online Library of Liberty

    The Levellers, such as John Lilburne (1615-1657), Richard Overton (1631-1664), and William Walwyn (c. 1600-1681), were a group of radical libertarian activists and pamphleteers who were active during the English Revolution. They advocated individual liberty, property rights, constitutionally limited government, religious toleration, and free trade at a time when virtually none of these things existed in England. For their troubles, several of them were repeatedly imprisoned and their…

    The Levellers, such as John Lilburne (1615-1657), Richard Overton (1631-1664), and William Walwyn (c. 1600-1681), were a group of radical libertarian activists and pamphleteers who were active during the English Revolution. They advocated individual liberty, property rights, constitutionally limited government, religious toleration, and free trade at a time when virtually none of these things existed in England. For their troubles, several of them were repeatedly imprisoned and their publications censored.

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Courses

  • BPX Management Training program by Raw Signal Group

    2022

  • Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in Partnership with The Nature Conservation

    Incubator program

Projects

  • Climate Workers Anonymous

    - Present

    PostSecret for climate. Anonymous stories from the climate industry trenches.

    I curate the collective art project that is Climate Workers Anonymous. It is a podcast and Substack written publication about the hard parts of working on climate that people are unwilling to say with personal attribution.

  • Nori's Creative Communications Products

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    Nori was a content-first company that led with polished and effective creative communications products.

    Reversing Climate Change and Carbon Removal Newsroom, the two podcasts I created, produced, and/or hosted, featured over five-hundred episodes with millions of unique downloads, with world-class thinkers and innovators as guests, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Oscars, the Grammys, the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur Genius grant, the James Beard Award, the Hugo and Nebula awards…

    Nori was a content-first company that led with polished and effective creative communications products.

    Reversing Climate Change and Carbon Removal Newsroom, the two podcasts I created, produced, and/or hosted, featured over five-hundred episodes with millions of unique downloads, with world-class thinkers and innovators as guests, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Oscars, the Grammys, the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur Genius grant, the James Beard Award, the Hugo and Nebula awards, the Rhodes Scholarship, and more. It contains extremely diverse topics connecting back to carbon removal and climate change, e.g. Jung and the Vietnam War, the philosophy of science, biophilia, theology, Dante, sailing, and so many more in addition to regular industry news and deep dives for carbon removal and decarbonization.

    I also created and ran a writers room for popular Carbon Removal Memes accounts. Our memes were an extremely effective and fun way to grow the carbon removal community from the outside and entertain members already in it.

Honors & Awards

  • Eagle Scout

    Boy Scouts of America

Languages

  • Hungarian

    Elementary proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • Lithuanian

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Order of Malta

    Auxiliary

    - Present
  • The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

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    - Present
  • Knights of Columbus

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    - Present
  • Fraternal Order of Eagles

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    - Present

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