Carissa Pobre is a writer and educator born and raised in Quezon City. Her multidisciplinary practice traverses methods and topics in class politics, institutional critique, and social movements.

Her latest work is the aesthetic-pedagogic project slant school (2025–) that performed an experimental lecture series in Manila and Baguio. In 2024, she was selected for the SOMA international program in Mexico City that explored collaborative pedagogies among artists, curators, critics, and art historians. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art from University of New Mexico.

Among her work and writings are two books of poetry and essays, Compositions (2023) and Formations (2021). For three years, she served as co-steer of Agam Agenda, an initiative that organized arts-based mobilizations as well as the award-winning anthology of poetry, prose, and photography on the climate crisis, Harvest Moon (2021). She is also co-editor of Makisawsaw Recipes x Ideas: Community Gardens Edition (2021), produced together with citizen action groups that organize community kitchens and urban food gardens in Metro Manila. She teaches and works together with various collectives for regenerative culture and political education.