Vanessa Andreotti, PhD, is one of the co-founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Art/Research Collective and the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism.

Elizabeth Bechard, MScPH, is a Senior Policy Analyst for Moms Clean Air Force, where she leads Moms’ work at the intersection of climate change and mental health.

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff is an art/talk/eco therapist, writer and climate advocate based in Berkeley, California. She is on the Executive Committee of Climate Psychology Alliance North America, and chairs the Creative Arts & Climate committee.

Leslie is co-lead of the Climate Psychology Certificate, and a climate psychology author, educator, and consultant.

Barbara Easterlin, PhD, is a clinician and consultant specializing in climate psychology.

Wawa Gatheru is an environmental justice advocate and storyteller. She is a proud first generation American of Kenyan descent and the founder of the organization Black Girl Environmentalist, an intergenerational community for Black girls, women and non-binary environmentalists.

Anna Graybeal is a Clinical Psychologist and Certified Group Therapist in private practice in Austin, Texas. Anna is an ongoing student of modern analytic psychotherapy in Austin and at the Center for Group Studies in New York, and is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.

Wendy Greenspun, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and serves on the Executive Committee of the Climate Psychology Alliance-North America. She is on faculty at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she teaches a course on climate and psychoanalysis in the one- year program on Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World.

Caroline Hickman is a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Bath researching children and young people’s emotional responses to climate change in the UK, Brazil, The Maldives, Nigeria & USA for 10 years examining eco-anxiety & distress, eco-empathy, trauma, moral injury and the impact of climate anxiety on relationships.

Kyle X. Hill, PhD, MPH is Ojibwe (Turtle Mountain Band; Enrolled Citizen), Dakota (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe), Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe). Dr. Hill is currently an assistant professor with the University of North Dakota, school of medicine and health sciences, department of Indigenous Health.

Theopia Jackson, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who received her master’s degree in clinical psychology from Howard University, Washington DC, and her doctorate from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California.

Susanne Moser, PhD, is a lover of Earth, climate action strategist, researcher, poet, and facilitator of transformative change.

Dr. Jade S. Sasser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research explores the relationships between reproductive justice, women’s health, and climate change.

LaUra Schmidt is the founder of the Good Grief Network and the brain behind the “10-Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate” program and the FLOW Facilitation Training modality. She is a lifelong student, curator, and practitioner of personal and collective resilience strategies.

Pablo Suarez is a researcher on climate and disasters turned humanitarian worker, innovator, game designer, and creator of serious-yet-fun processes for collaborative learning and dialogue.

Tori Tsui (she/her/they) is an unapologetic and self-described 'bad' activist who focuses on climate change, mental health and anti-racism.

Adrián Villaseñor Galarza, PhD, is passionate about human transformation in service of the living Earth. Adrián is an academic collaborator, international facilitator, ritualist, author, and contemplative practitioner whose work weaves together the psycho-spiritual study of the Earth-human relation, animist principles, and contemplative wisdom.

Zhiwa Woodbury is a panpsychologist and long-time advocate for all things natural and wild.

Britt is an author and researcher working at the forefront of climate change and mental health. She is the Lead of a Chair’s Special Initiative on Climate Change and Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine. Britt is the author of two books, the latest being Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, and is creator of Gen Dread, a weekly newsletter about finding radical hope on the far side of climate despair (gendread.substack.com).

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